2.5.68-mjb1

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:46:16 -0700


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-mjb1.bz2

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

(some NUMA info, but scuppers some things)
http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/pidmaps_nodepages

Since 2.5.67-mjb2 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)

Notes:
Predominantly just a syncup with 68.

Now in Linus' tree:
- vmalloc_stats Dave Hansen
Expose useful vmalloc statistics
- rmap_speedups Andrew Morton
Speed up various things in rmap
- concurrent_balloc Alex Tomas
Concurrent ext2 block allocation - makes SDET & dbench go whizzy fast.
- concurrent_inode Alex Tomas
Concurrent ext2 inode allocation - makes SDET & dbench go whizzy fast.
- meminfo-doc Dave Hansen
Document all those mysterious fields in /proc/meminfo

New:
+ node_balance Martin J. Bligh
Turn on node balance - it's not overagressive anymore
~ partial_objrmap Dave McCracken
Object based rmap for filebacked pages.

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

-mjb Martin J. Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile

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