2.5.50-mjb1 (scalability / NUMA patchset)

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Sun, 08 Dec 2002 22:11:19 -0800


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 other people running
large SMP or NUMA boxes.

http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.50/patch-2.5.50-mjb1.bz2

Since 2.5.47-mjb3:

merged by Linus:
- noearlyirq Martin Bligh et al.

all screwed up at the moment:
- dcache_rcu Dipankar Sarma

added:
merged up to 2.5.50 base
+ devclass_panic Bill Irwin
+ shpte Dave McCracken
+ subarch reorg John Stultz
+ numaq_makefile Martin Bligh
+ numaq_apic James Cleverdon / Martin Bligh
+ numaq_mpparse1 James Cleverdon / Martin Bligh
+ config_page_offset Dave Hansen / Andrea
+ vmalloc_stats Dave Hansen
+ notsc Martin Bligh

Pending:
Speed up page init on boot (Bill Irwin)
Move more of NUMA-Q to subarch (James C / Martin / John)
Full Summit support (James C / John)
RCU routecache (?)
Per-cpu interrupt stacks (bcrl / Dave)
4K Kernel stacks config option (Dave)
scheduler callers profiling (Anton)
PPC64 NUMA patches (Anton)
The revenge of dcache_rcu (Dipankar)
/proc/meminfo.numa (Me and others).

kgdb Various People
The older version of kgdb, not the shiny new stuff in Andrew's tree.
Yes, I'm boring and slow.

rcu_stats Dipankar Sarma
Gives rcu statistics

i386_topo Matt Dobson
Some i386 topology cleanups to make it cache the data.

use_generic_topo Matt Dobson
Something to do with tolopology that I forget.

numasched1 Erich Focht
Numa scheduler general foundation work + pooling

numasched2 Michael Hohnbaum
Numa scheduler lightweight initial load balancing.

local_pgdat Bill Irwin
Move the pgdat structure into the remapped space with lmem_map

early_printk Dave Hansen et al.
Allow printk before console_init

frameptr Martin Bligh
Disable -fomit_frame_pointer

confighz Dave Hansen
Make HZ a config option

devclass_panic Bill Irwin
Reorder sysfs init for topo to avoid panic

shpte Dave McCracken
Shared pagetables (as a config option)

subarch reorg John Stultz
Move the header files for subarch under include/asm-i386

numaq_makefile Martin Bligh
Create shell of NUMA-Q subarch support.

numaq_apic James Cleverdon / Martin Bligh
Break out some apic stuff for NUMA-Q into subarch

numaq_mpparse1 James Cleverdon / Martin Bligh
Break out some mpparse stuff for NUMA-Q into subarch

config_page_offset Dave Hansen / Andrea
Make PAGE_OFFSET a config option

vmalloc_stats Dave Hansen
Expose useful vmalloc statistics

notsc Martin Bligh
Enable notsc option for NUMA-Q (new version for new config system)

mjb1 Martin Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile

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