Wow good memory, 3 years ago:
<http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2004-March/020287.html>
I'm compiling with gcc4.1.1 for arm5t big endian, patched for multiple
arm ports (OpenEmbedded) and it still botches that code today.
Works fine with the arithmetic decomposition in the message.
And I never blame the compiler! ;-)
Thanks!
BTW, XFS gives this little machine a nice bump in NFS write
bandwidth. Goes from ~6MB/sec to ~7MB/s. CPU limited, mainly.
Tom.
At 04:32 PM 3/14/2007, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>Talpey, Thomas wrote:
>> This might be pilot error, but a *very* strange thing happens with
>> an XFS filesystem on an NFS server I'm experimenting with. This is
>> an NSLU2 ARM-based machine, running 2.6.20.1 and an XFS filesystem
>> freshly built on a usb-attached 2.5" drive.
>>
>> Running Connectathon 04 basic tests against the server, things are
>> fine with an EXT-formatted filesystem. However, reformatting the
>> export as a default XFS filesystem (mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda3), the
>> following occurs:
>
>arm compiler has bugs that miscompile xfs... I think if you google arm +
>xfs and maybe search the list archives, you'll find a possible workaround.
>
>-Eric
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