http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.59/2.5.59-mm9/
. Adam's cleanup and cutdown of devfs has been put back in again. We
really need devfs users to test this and to report, please. (And not just
to me! I'll only bounce it to Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
anyway)
Adam has a userspace helper app `devfs-helper' at
ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/device_control/devfs/
. The I/O scheduler changes here are stable now. All-round peformance is
OK.
I've been using it on the desktop for a week. Certain operations are
noticeably different; for example a big `cvs co' would previously have had
several-second stalls every 20 seconds or so. Now, things slow down but it
keeps going. I'm sure the overall runtime will be slightly increased, but
overall the decreased read latency is good.
. dcache_rcu has been put back.
Changes since 2.5.59-mm8:
-reiserfs-readpages.patch
-fadvise.patch
-auto-unplug.patch
-less-unplugging.patch
-kirq.patch
-kirq-up-fix.patch
-agp-warning-fix.patch
-prune-icache-stats.patch
-vma-file-merge.patch
-mmap-whitespace.patch
-read_cache_pages-cleanup.patch
-remove-GFP_HIGHIO.patch
-wli-11_pgd_ctor.patch
-wli-11_pgd_ctor-update.patch
-smaller-slab-batches.patch
-printk-locking.patch
-hangcheck-timer.patch
-jbd-documentation.patch
-sendfile-security-hooks.patch
-mmzone-parens.patch
-no_space_in_slabnames.patch
-remove-will_become_orphaned_pgrp.patch
-MAX_IO_APICS-ifdef.patch
-dac960-error-retry.patch
-topology-remove-underbars.patch
-put_user-warning-fix.patch
-hash-warnings.patch
-mark_inode_dirty-race.patch
-lost-tick.patch
-seq_file-page-defn.patch
-scsi-iothread.patch
-writeback-sync-cleanup.patch
-dont-wait-on-inode.patch
-unlink-latency-fix.patch
-pin_page-fix.patch
-pin_page-pmd.patch
-frlock-xtime.patch
-frlock-xtime-i386.patch
-frlock-xtime-ia64.patch
-frlock-xtime-other.patch
-seqlock.patch
-do_gettimeofday-speedup.patch
-default_idle-speedup.patch
-pte_chain_alloc-fixes.patch
-hugetlbfs-set_page_dirty.patch
-compound-pages.patch
-compound-pages-hugetlb.patch
-hugetlbfs-get_unmapped_area.patch
-hugetlbfs-truncate-fix.patch
-hugetlbfs-i_size-fix.patch
-hugetlbfs-cleanup.patch
-hugetlbfs-nopage-cleanup.patch
-hugetlbfs-fault-fix.patch
-hugetlbpage-cleanup.patch
-hugetlb_vmtruncate-fixes.patch
-hugetlb-mremap-fix.patch
-mremap-cleanup.patch
-up-spinlock-debugging.patch
Merged
+seqlock-fixes.patch
seqlock tweak
+profiler-per-cpu.patch
Use per-cpu data for the kernel profiler
+disassociate_tty-fix.patch
TTY layer race fix
+crc32-speedup.patch
Faster crc32 implementation
+report-lost-ticks.patch
Add some controls to the ia32 lost tick detector.
-scheduler-update.patch
+sched-2.5.59-F3.patch
Ingo's latest HT-aware CPU scheduler changes
+generic_file_aio_write_nolock-overflow-fix.patch
Fix huge writes on 64-bit machines.
+lockd-lockup-fix.patch
Maybe fix a knfsd deadlock
+ll_rw_block-fix.patch
Fix obscure incorrectness when ll_rw_block() is used for IS_SYNC
operations.
+rcu-stats.patch
Resusrrect RCU statistics in /proc
+dcache_rcu-fast_walk-revert.patch
+dcache_rcu-main.patch
Use RCU technology for relieving dcache_lock stress
+cyclone-fixes.patch
+enable-timer_cyclone.patch
Add support for the x440's timer
+vxfs-memleak-fix.patch
Fix a memory leak
+smalldevfs.patch
Simplified devfs
+remove-journal_try_start.patch
Remove the ext3 code which attempts to avoid blocking kswapd on
journal_start().
+dac960-range-fix.patch
DAC960 fix.
+DAC960-maintainer.patch
Add David
+sys_exit_group-warning-fix.patch
Fix a compile warning
+nforce2-support.patch
Support nforce2 IDE controllers
All 43 patches:
linus.patch
seqlock-fixes.patch
kgdb.patch
devfs-fix.patch
ptrace-flush.patch
Subject: [PATCH] ptrace on 2.5.44
buffer-debug.patch
buffer.c debugging
warn-null-wakeup.patch
htlb-2.patch
hugetlb: fix MAP_FIXED handling
ext3-truncate-ordered-pages.patch
ext3: explicitly free truncated pages
profiler-per-cpu.patch
Subject: Re: [patch] Make prof_counter use per-cpu areas patch 1/4 -- x86 arch
oprofile-p4.patch
oprofile_cpu-as-string.patch
oprofile cpu-as-string
disassociate_tty-fix.patch
Subject: [PATCH][RESEND 3] disassociate_ctty SMP fix
epoll-update.patch
epoll timeout and syscall return types ...
mandlock-oops-fix.patch
ftruncate/truncate oopses with mandatory locking
reiserfs_file_write.patch
Subject: reiserfs file_write patch
user-process-count-leak.patch
fix current->user->processes leak
misc.patch
misc fixes
numaq-ioapic-fix2.patch
NUMAQ io_apic programming fix
deadline-np-42.patch
(undescribed patch)
deadline-np-43.patch
(undescribed patch)
batch-tuning.patch
I/O scheduler tuning
starvation-by-read-fix.patch
fix starvation-by-readers in the IO scheduler
crc32-speedup.patch
crc32 improvements for 2.5
scheduler-tunables.patch
scheduler tunables
sched-2.5.59-F3.patch
HT scheduler, sched-2.5.59-F3
rml-scheduler-update2.patch
rml scheduler tree
report-lost-ticks.patch
make lost-tick detection more informative
generic_file_aio_write_nolock-overflow-fix.patch
generic_file_write() overflow fix
lockd-lockup-fix.patch
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: 2.4.20 NFS server lock-up (SMP)
ll_rw_block-fix.patch
Fix ll_rw_block() when used for data integrity
rcu-stats.patch
RCU statistics reporting
dcache_rcu-fast_walk-revert.patch
dcache_rcu: revert fast_walk code
dcache_rcu-main.patch
dcache_rcu
cyclone-fixes.patch
Cyclonetimer fixes
enable-timer_cyclone.patch
Enable timer_cyclone code
vxfs-memleak-fix.patch
fix leaks in vxfs_read_fshead()
smalldevfs.patch
smalldevfs
remove-journal_try_start.patch
ext3: Remove journal_try_start()
dac960-range-fix.patch
Subject: [PATCH] DAC960 Stanford Checker fix
DAC960-maintainer.patch
Add David Olien MAINTAINERs for DAC960
sys_exit_group-warning-fix.patch
nforce2-support.patch
nforce2 IDE support for the amd74xx driver
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