The patchset contains mainly scalability and NUMA stuff, and anything
else that stops things from irritating me. It's meant to be pretty stable,
not so much a testing ground for new stuff.
I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any
platform, however large or small.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.5.68/patch-2.5.68-mjb
2.bz2
(may take a few minutes after sending this to appear)
additional:
(these two form the qlogic feral driver)
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.67/2.5.67
-mm1/broken-out/linux-isp.patch
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.67/2.5.67
-mm1/broken-out/isp-update-1.patch
(shared pagetables - will appear later ;-))
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.5.68/shpte
Since 2.5.68-mjb1 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)
Notes:
Now in Linus' tree:
New:
+ lost_tick_fix John Stultz
Lost tick stuff
+ warn_e1000 Dave Hansen
Kill e1000 warning
+ pidmaps_nodepages Dave Hansen
Provide per-pid node mem usage info
+ dentry_stat_fix Maneesh
corrects the dentry_stat.nr_unused calculation
+ follow_hugetlb_page Bill Irwin
Fix follow_hugetlb_page()
+ hugetlb_mem_enough Bill Irwin
fixes an overflow when there is more than 4GB of hugetlb
+ aio_fix Badari Pulavarty
Fix something in AIO
+ config_numasched Dave Hansen
Turn NUMA scheduler into a config option
+ lockmeter_tytso Ted Tso
Fix lockmeter
+ aiofix2 Mingming Cao
fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc()
+ oom_locking Bill Irwin / Robert Love
Fix OOM locking
Pending:
Hyperthreaded scheduler (Ingo Molnar)
scheduler callers profiling (Anton or Bill Hartner)
Child runs first (akpm)
Kexec
e1000 fixes
Update the lost timer ticks code
Present in this patch:
early_printk Dave Hansen et al.
Allow printk before console_init
confighz Andrew Morton / Dave Hansen
Make HZ a config option of 100 Hz or 1000 Hz
config_page_offset Dave Hansen / Andrea
Make PAGE_OFFSET a config option
numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey
Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa
schedstat Rick Lindsley
Provide stats about the scheduler under /proc/schedstat
schedstat2 Rick Lindsley
Provide more stats about the scheduler under /proc/schedstat
schedstat-scripts Rick Lindsley
Provide some scripts for schedstat analysis under scripts/
sched_tunables Robert Love
Provide tunable parameters for the scheduler (+ NUMA scheduler)
node_balance Martin J. Bligh
Turn on node balance - it's not overagressive anymore
irq_affinity Martin J. Bligh
Workaround for irq_affinity on clustered apic mode systems (eg x440)
partial_objrmap Dave McCracken
Object based rmap for filebacked pages.
objrmap_fix Dave McCracken
Fix detection of anon pages
objrmap_fixes Dave McCracken / Hugh Dickins
Fix up some mapped sizing bugs in objrmap
objrmap_mapcount Dave McCracken
Fix up some mapped sizing bugs in objrmap
kgdb Andrew Morton
The older version of kgdb, synched with 2.5.54-mm1
kprobes Vamsi Krishna S
Add kernel probes hooks to the kernel
thread_info_cleanup (4K stacks pt 1) Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
Prep work to reduce kernel stacks to 4K
interrupt_stacks (4K stacks pt 2) Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
Create a per-cpu interrupt stack.
stack_usage_check (4K stacks pt 3) Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
Check for kernel stack overflows.
4k_stack (4K stacks pt 4) Dave Hansen
Config option to reduce kernel stacks to 4K
fix_kgdb Dave Hansen
Fix interaction between kgdb and 4K stacks
stacks_from_slab William Lee Irwin
Take kernel stacks from the slab cache, not page allocation.
thread_under_page William Lee Irwin
Fix THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE case
lkcd LKCD team
Linux kernel crash dump support
percpu_loadavg Martin J. Bligh
Provide per-cpu loadaverages, and real load averages
spinlock_inlining Andrew Morton
Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me.
summit_pcimap Matt Dobson
Provide pci bus -> node mapping for x440
# shpte Dave McCracken
Shared pagetables
reiserfs_dio Mingming Cao
DIO for Reiserfs
sched_interactive Ingo Molnar
Bugfix for interactive scheduler
kgdb_cleanup Martin J. Bligh
Stop kgdb renaming schedule to do_schedule when it's not even enabled
acenic_fix Martin J. Bligh
Fix warning in acenic driver
sisfix Martin J. Bligh
Fix warning & bug in sis900 driver
local_balance_exec Martin J. Bligh
Modify balance_exec to use node-local queues when idle
membind Matt Dobson
NUMA memory binding API
tcp_speedup Martin J. Bligh
Speedup TCP (avoid double copy) as suggested by Linus
early_printk_fix Keith Mannthey
Fix commandline parsing in early printk (yay!)
disable preempt Martin J. Bligh
I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents
sched_idle Martin J. Bligh
Call load_balance with proper idle flag (pointed out by John Hawkes)
diskstats Rick Lindsley
Make disk stats available in /proc so they scale to lotsa disks.
ppc64 fixes Anton Blanchard
Various PPC64 fixes / updates
numameminfo fix Martin J. Bligh
Correct /proc/meminfo.numa for zholes_size.
more_async Andrew Morton
Make MS_ASYNC more async
separate_pmd Dave Hansen
Separate kernel pmd per process
config_debug Martin J. Bligh
Make '-g' for the kernel a config option
akpm_bear_pit Andrew Morton
Add a printk for some buffer error I was hitting
32bit_dev_t Andries Brouwer
Make dev_t 32 bit
dynamic_hd_struct Badari Pulavarty
Allocate hd_structs dynamically
devfs_fixup Badari Pulavarty ?
Fix some random thing in devfs
iosched_hashes Badari Pulavarty
Twiddle with the iosched hash tables for fun & profit
lotsa_sds Badari Pulavarty
Create some insane number of sds
per_node_idt Zwane Mwaikambo
Per node IDT so we can do silly numbers of IO-APICs on NUMA-Q
banana_split Dave Hansen
Provide non PMD aligned splits with PAE mode (eg 3.5:0.5)
tulip_warning Dave Hansen
Fix silly warning in tulip driver for PAE mode
lost_tick_fix John Stultz
Lost tick stuff
warn_e1000 Dave Hansen
Kill e1000 warning
pidmaps_nodepages Dave Hansen
Provide per-pid node mem usage info
dentry_stat_fix Maneesh
corrects the dentry_stat.nr_unused calculation
follow_hugetlb_page Bill Irwin
Fix follow_hugetlb_page()
hugetlb_mem_enough Bill Irwin
fixes an overflow when there is more than 4GB of hugetlb
aio_fix Badari Pulavarty
Fix something in AIO
config_numasched Dave Hansen
Turn NUMA scheduler into a config option
lockmeter_tytso Ted Tso
Fix lockmeter
aiofix2 Mingming Cao
fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc()
oom_locking Bill Irwin / Robert Love
Fix OOM locking
-mjb Martin J. Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile
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