facing problem "Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary"

i have baught a new HD with same size and capacity. and trying to copy partition via command "sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk --force /dev/sdb" above command work well. however one confusing part it "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" is giving ...

Message posted on the May 15th, 2013 - 4:20 AM ET

[PATCH v3 0/7] Improve swiotlb performance by using physical addresses

While working on 10Gb/s routing performance I found a significant amount of time was being spent in the swiotlb DMA handler. Further digging found that a significant amount of this was due to virtual to physical address translation and calling the ...

Message posted on the October 15th, 2012 - 01:20 pm ET

[PATCH v2 0/7] Improve swiotlb performance by using physical addresses

While working on 10Gb/s routing performance I found a significant amount of time was being spent in the swiotlb DMA handler. Further digging found that a significant amount of this was due to virtual to physical address translation and calling the ...

Message posted on the October 11th, 2012 - 04:40 pm ET

[PATCH 0/7] Improve swiotlb performance by using physical addresses

While working on 10Gb/s routing performance I found a significant amount of time was being spent in the swiotlb DMA handler. Further digging found that a significant amount of this was due to virtual to physical address translation and calling the ...

Message posted on the October 05th, 2012 - 08:40 pm ET

[PATCH 0/4] Physical memory info formatting

There are no functional changes in these patches; they just add a little consistency to printing out physical memory information. For example: -BIOS-provided physical RAM map: +e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: - BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - ...

Message posted on the April 27th, 2012 - 07:40 pm ET

[RFC PATCH 0/12] memory-hotplug : hot-remove physical memory

This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove. [RFC PATCH 1/12] memory-hotplug : rename remove_memory to offline_memory [RFC PATCH 2/12] memory-hogplug : check memory offline in offline_pages [RFC PATCH 3/12] memory-hotplug : add ...

Message posted on the June 27th, 2012 - 01:50 am ET

[RFC PATCH 0/7] Improve swiotlb performance by using physical addresses

While working on 10Gb/s routing performance I found a significant amount of time was being spent in the swiotlb DMA handler. Further digging found that a significant amount of this was due to the fact that virtual to physical address translation ...

Message posted on the October 03rd, 2012 - 08:40 pm ET

[RFC PATCH v4 0/13] memory-hotplug : hot-remove physical memory

This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove. [RFC PATCH v4 1/13] memory-hotplug : rename remove_memory to offline_memory [RFC PATCH v4 2/13] memory-hotplug : add physical memory hotplug code to acpi_memory_device_remove [RFC PATCH ...

Message posted on the July 18th, 2012 - 06:10 am ET

[RFC PATCH v3 0/13] memory-hotplug : hot-remove physical memory

This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove. [RFC PATCH v3 1/13] memory-hotplug : rename remove_memory to offline_memory [RFC PATCH v3 2/13] memory-hotplug : add physical memory hotplug code to acpi_memory_device_remove [RFC PATCH ...

Message posted on the July 09th, 2012 - 06:30 am ET

[RFC PATCH v2 0/13] memory-hotplug : hot-remove physical memory

This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove. [RFC PATCH v2 1/13] memory-hotplug : rename remove_memory to offline_memory [RFC PATCH v2 2/13] memory-hotplug : add physical memory hotplug code to acpi_memory_device_remove [RFC PATCH ...

Message posted on the July 03rd, 2012 - 02:00 am ET

What is a physical 'sector' boundary?

I just replaced a 320gb drive in a netbook by a 500gb one. Since the old drive had been partitioned with the old fdisk using cylinders and the new version of fdisk uses only sectors I booted an old install cd and invoked the old fdisk to more or ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2011 - 07:15 pm ET

[PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode

Hi all, The attached patch enables EFI to run in physical mode. Basically EFI is in physical mode at first and it's switched to virtual mode after calling SetVirtualAddressMap. By applying this patch, you can run EFI always in physical mode. And ...

Message posted on the August 13th, 2010 - 03:30 pm ET

Vista runs out of physical memory when working with files > 1GB - memory management issue?

I regularly see issue where Vista runs out of physical memory and starts swapping memory into the page file and as hard drive operations dramatically increase explorer stops responding or is responding very slowly. One example is a situation where I ...

Message posted on the March 29th, 2010 - 02:19 pm ET

How to map ata_link to physical link and ata_port to physical port

Hi hackers, In our internal usage, we want to map the disk in system like sd{a,b,c} to physical disk slot. When the disk is attached to LSI HBA card, we find that we can rely on the phy attribute of the disk to find the slot since this attribute ...

Message posted on the July 15th, 2012 - 11:20 pm ET

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