Some idea about creating a linux kernel patch using Git

ABOUT creating a linux kernel patch using Git [bash] git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jeffrin/linux-2.6/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 1806930, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (278260/278260), done. Receiving objects: 14% (2553100/1806930), 117.83 MiB | 127 KiB/s Resolving deltas: 100% (1513210/1513210), done. $cd linux-2.6 $./scripts/ge genksyms/ get_maintainer.pl $./scripts/get_maintainer.pl –file sound/ac97_bus.c Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Takashi …

Unevictable: 4 kB 0.1

Unevictable: 4 kB The Unevictable LRU infrastructure addresses the following classes of unevictable pages: + page owned by ram disks or ramfs + page mapped into SHM_LOCKed shared memory regions + page mapped into VM_LOCKED [mlock()ed] vmas Least Recently Used (LRU): discards the least recently used items first. This algorithm requires keeping track of what …

kern.log part 1

$cut -d ‘ ‘ -f6-20 /var/log/kern.log [22293.016178] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [22293.016218] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended [22293.016635] EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal [22293.016647] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. $ The First field shown above is a timestamp. The kernel ring buffer is not really …

About RTO retransmission and tcp_orphan_retries

About RTO retransmission and tcp_orphan_retries tcp_orphan_retries – INTEGER This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. source : Linux Kernel Documentation . 2.6.32 TYPICAL SHELL ON PROC FILESYSTEM [bash] $cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_orphan_retries 0 $ [/bash] TYPICAL SOURCE CODE RELATED [c] net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c – 39 identical 99: static int tcp_orphan_retries(struct sock …