Hi Jens, hi list!
Will there be a new incantation of the laptop-mode patch for 2.4.23-pre4
and up, which includes the aa fixes. I tried to patch it in, but the
rejects in sysctl.h weren' solveable trivially.
Thanks a lot for any information and best wishes
Norbert
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On Sat, Sep 13 2003, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Jens, hi list!
>
> Will there be a new incantation of the laptop-mode patch for 2.4.23-pre4
> and up, which includes the aa fixes. I tried to patch it in, but the
> rejects in sysctl.h weren' solveable trivially.
Sure, I'll done a new patch in the next few days. I don't know what aa
patches you mean though? Are you trying to say that it conflicts with
the -aa series? It should be trivial to fix up, just renumber the
laptop-mode sysctls.
I'll send it to Marcelo too for 2.4.23.
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On Son, 14 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Will there be a new incantation of the laptop-mode patch for 2.4.23-pre4
>
> Sure, I'll done a new patch in the next few days. I don't know what aa
> patches you mean though? Are you trying to say that it conflicts with
The ones included into kernel 2.4.23-pre4 (stuff from -aa kernels).
> the -aa series? It should be trivial to fix up, just renumber the
> laptop-mode sysctls.
Ok, this was what I wanted to know. The rest I can do myself, thanks.
> I'll send it to Marcelo too for 2.4.23.
Good idea!
Best wishes
Norbert
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On Mon, Sep 15 2003, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Son, 14 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Will there be a new incantation of the laptop-mode patch for 2.4.23-pre4
> >
> > Sure, I'll done a new patch in the next few days. I don't know what aa
> > patches you mean though? Are you trying to say that it conflicts with
>
> The ones included into kernel 2.4.23-pre4 (stuff from -aa kernels).
Here's a fresh one against current BK, could you please give it a go?
> > I'll send it to Marcelo too for 2.4.23.
>
> Good idea!
Done.
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Hi Jens!
On Mit, 17 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Here's a fresh one against current BK, could you please give it a go?
I patched my 2.4.23-pre4 together with some other patches and this one
and it worked. I am still using the laptop-mode.sh script from your
original posting (echo "30 500 0 0 $AGE $AGE 60 20 0" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
for start etc)
> +Laptop mode
[...]
> +desribed above. See the laptop-mode.sh script for how to do that.
Should this script be included in the readme?
Best wishes
Norbert
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>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Axboe <[email protected]> writes:
Jens> On Mon, Sep 15 2003, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Son, 14 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Will there be a new
>> incantation of the laptop-mode patch for 2.4.23-pre4
>> >
>> > Sure, I'll done a new patch in the next few days.
Are you thinking of pushing something like this into 2.6 as well?
I ask, because 2.6 seems to drive the laptop significantly harder than
2.4 anyway --- battery life is lower, the disk light is on more, and the
machine runs hotter.
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On Thu, Sep 18 2003, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "Jens" == Jens Axboe <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Jens> On Mon, Sep 15 2003, Norbert Preining wrote:
> >> On Son, 14 Sep 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Will there be a new
> >> incantation of the laptop-mode patch for 2.4.23-pre4
> >> >
> >> > Sure, I'll done a new patch in the next few days.
>
> Are you thinking of pushing something like this into 2.6 as well?
Definitely. Andrew had a more invasive version back in 2.5.2x iirc, that
might be a good basis if someone were to look into this before me...
> I ask, because 2.6 seems to drive the laptop significantly harder than
> 2.4 anyway --- battery life is lower, the disk light is on more, and the
> machine runs hotter.
Hmm that sounds a bit strange. I just put 2.6 on my powerbook, haven't
really used it enough yet to notice a difference. I'll keep it in mind,
though.
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Hi!
> +So what does the laptop mode patch do? It attempts to fully utilize the
> +hard drive once it has been spun up, flushing the old dirty data out to
> +disk. Instead of flushing just the expired data, it will clean everything.
> +When a read causes the disk to spin up, we kick off this flushing after
> +a few seconds. This means that once the disk spins down again, everything
> +is up to date. That allows longer dirty data and journal expire times.
Another nice touch would be to sync just before spinning down.
noflushd does that... of course it needs software-controlled
spindowns.
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On Wed, Sep 17 2003, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > +So what does the laptop mode patch do? It attempts to fully utilize the
> > +hard drive once it has been spun up, flushing the old dirty data out to
> > +disk. Instead of flushing just the expired data, it will clean everything.
> > +When a read causes the disk to spin up, we kick off this flushing after
> > +a few seconds. This means that once the disk spins down again, everything
> > +is up to date. That allows longer dirty data and journal expire times.
>
> Another nice touch would be to sync just before spinning down.
> noflushd does that... of course it needs software-controlled
> spindowns.
Yeah, my automatic acoustic management patch did that, works well in
addition to laptop mode. It's beyond the scope of this patch though,
it's just a vm flushing control.
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