[openib-general] ready to go

Thu Apr 1 13:38:28 PST 2004

>     ron> I did comment some broken stuff out but don't think it will
>     ron> hurt.
>
>What did you have to comment out?  (I've compiled the whole thing on
>i386 and ppc64 without commenting anything out)

Under which OS ? When I built it under 8.0 with the kernel.org 
2.4.25, I had no issues. When I built it under RH 9.0 and 2.4.24, I 
had the many issues, beyond the fact that of the set_user_nice issue. 
It is looking for SYS_mlock and several other issues. All have been 
solved but the one in mosal_mlock.c

>
>     ron> Somebody tell me why a driver is doing set_user_nice please
>
>To increase the priority of a worker thread.  There are in-tree
>drivers that do the same thing.  Also, it's not really part of the
>low-level driver -- the worker thread is part of the core IB support.
>Think of it as being similar to how ksoftirqd is niced to 19 and
>kblockd is niced to -10.
>
>In any case I can't defend it that vigorously; it is a bit of a hack
>but it helps Oracle work better.
>
>  - R.
>
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