2.5.55-mjb1 (scalability / NUMA patchset)

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Thu, 09 Jan 2003 23:21:22 -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 anyone willing to test on any
platform, however large or small.

http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.55/patch-2.5.55-mjb1.bz2

Since 2.5.54-mjb3

merged with Linus:
- kallsyms Andi Kleen / Daniel Ritz
- apicid_to_node Martin Bligh
- i386_topo Matt Dobson
- do_boot_error James Cleverdon
- more_numaq1 James Cleverdon / Martin Bligh
- cleanup_cpu_apicid Martin J. Bligh
- smpboot_cam Martin J. Bligh
- nuke_clustered_apic Martin J. Bligh
- fix_starfire_warning Martin J. Bligh

Other:
~ summit2 James Cleverdon / John Stultz
- shpte Dave McCracken
(dropped temporarily until Dave merges up with 2.5.55)
~ interrupt_stacks Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
~ stack_usage_check Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise
+ ksymsoff Hugh Dickins

Pending:
Speed up page init on boot (Bill Irwin)
Notsc automatic enablement
scheduler callers profiling (Anton)
PPC64 NUMA patches (Anton)
Scheduler tunables (rml)
Lockless xtime structures (Andi)
P4 oprofile support (movement)

summit1 James Cleverdon / John Stultz
Summit support part 1

summit2 James Cleverdon / John Stultz
Summit support part 2

summit3 James Cleverdon / John Stultz
Summit support part 3

summit4 James Cleverdon / John Stultz
Summit support part 4

dcache_rcu Dipankar / Maneesh
Use RCU type locking for the dentry cache.

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

vmalloc_stats Dave Hansen
Expose useful vmalloc statistics

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

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

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

numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey
Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa

kgdb Andrew Morton / Various People
The older version of kgdb, synched with 2.5.54-mm1

noframeptr Martin Bligh
Disable -fomit_frame_pointer

ksymoff Hugh Dickins
Fix off by one error in kksymoops

-mjb Martin Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile

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