http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.33/2.5.33-mm2/
- Linus has merged ia32 NUMA discontigmem support
+ Added a little cleanup patch from various folks.
Threw in the kichen sink:
+writeback-control.patch
Infrastructure for richer communication between the block layer
and the VM.
+queue-congestion.patch
Infrastructure for non-blocking writeout in the block layer.
+nonblocking-pdflush.patch
Non-blocking background writeback
+nonblocking-vm.patch
Non-blocking page reclaim.
This is all about reducing latency when the machine is performing heavy
writeback, which has been a significant performance problem for ever.
The code also happens to provide improved scalability in many-spindle
pagecache writeback.
The code is stable, but by no means complete. Under some loads it will
chew tons of CPU in page reclaim.
But with mem=512m and four instances of `dbench 100' each against a
different disk the machine was 100% responsive and ran a `make -j6
bzImage' in three minutes. Without these patches the kernel took over
five minutes just to unpack the kernel tarball.
linus.patch
cset-1.575-to-1.600.txt.gz
scsi_hack.patch
Fix block-highmem for scsi
ext3-htree.patch
Indexed directories for ext3
zone-pages-reporting.patch
Fix the boot-time reporting of each zone's available pages
enospc-recovery-fix.patch
Fix the __block_write_full_page() error path.
fix-faults.patch
Back out the initial work for atomic copy_*_user()
spin-lock-check.patch
spinlock/rwlock checking infrastructure
refill-rate.patch
refill the inactive list more quickly
copy_user_atomic.patch
kmap_atomic_reads.patch
Use kmap_atomic() for generic_file_read()
kmap_atomic_writes.patch
Use kmap_atomic() for generic_file_write()
throttling-fix.patch
Fix throttling of heavy write()rs.
dirty-state-accounting.patch
Make the global dirty memory accounting more accurate
rd-cleanup.patch
Cleanup and fix the ramdisk driver (doesn't work right yet)
discontig-cleanup-1.patch
i386 discontigmem coding cleanups
discontig-cleanup-2.patch
i386 discontigmem cleanups
writeback-thresholds.patch
Downward adjustments to the default dirtymemory thresholds
buffer-strip.patch
Limit the consumption of ZONE_NORMAL by buffer_heads
rmap-speedup.patch
rmap pte_chain space and CPU reductions
wli-highpte.patch
Resurrect CONFIG_HIGHPTE - ia32 pagetables in highmem
readv-writev.patch
O_DIRECT support for readv/writev
slablru.patch
age slab pages on the LRU
slablru-speedup.patch
slablru optimisations
llzpr.patch
Reduce scheduling latency across zap_page_range
buffermem.patch
Resurrect buffermem accounting
config-PAGE_OFFSET.patch
Configurable kenrel/user memory split
lpp.patch
ia32 huge tlb pages
ext3-sb.patch
u.ext3_sb -> generic_sbp
oom-fix.patch
Fix an OOM condition on big highmem machines
tlb-cleanup.patch
Clean up the tlb gather code
dump-stack.patch
arch-neutral dump_stack() function
wli-cleanup.patch
random cleanups
madvise-move.patch
move mdavise implementation into mm/madvise.c
split-vma.patch
VMA splitting patch
buffer-ops-move.patch
Move submit_bh() and ll_rw_block() into fs/buffer.c
writeback-control.patch
Cleanup and extension of the writeback paths
queue-congestion.patch
Infrastructure for communicating request queue congestion to the VM
nonblocking-pdflush.patch
non-blocking writeback infrastructure, use it for pdflush
nonblocking-vm.patch
Non-blocking page reclaim
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