The patchset is meant to be pretty stable, not so much a testing ground.
1. Better performance & resource consumption, particularly on larger machines.
2. Diagnosis tools (kgdb, early_printk, etc).
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/2.6.9/patch-2.6.9-mjb1.bz2
Pending:
config_page_offset
per_node_rss
local_balance_exec
reluctance in cross-node balance (less_bouncy)
sched tunables patch
Child runs first (akpm)
Netdump
Present in this patch:
-mjb Martin J. Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile
kgdb Various
Stolen from akpm's 2.6.9-mm1, includes fixes
kgdboe_netpoll Matt Mackall et al.
Kgdb over ethernet support that works with the netpoll infrastructure
kgdb_x86_64_support Jim Houston
Support kgdb on x86_64
kgdb_ia64_support Robert Picco
Support kgdb on ia64
ppc64_reloc_hide Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras
PPC 64 fixups
confighz Andrew Morton / Dave Hansen
Make HZ a config option of 100 Hz or 1000 Hz
numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey
Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa
disable preempt Martin J. Bligh
I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents
aiofix2 Mingming Cao
fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc()
percpu_real_loadavg Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh
Tell me what the real load average is, and tell me per cpu.
irqbal_fast Adam Litke
Balance IRQs more readily
kcg Adam Litke
Acylic call graphs from the kernel. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
kcg_gcc_detect Adam Litke
Detect older gcc versions that don't work with mcount, and crap out
numa_mem_equals Dave Hansen
mem= command line parameter NUMA awareness.
autoswap Con Kolivas
Auto-tune swapiness
kswapd_divide_by_zero Hugh Dickins
Fix divide_by_zero error
protocol254 Paul Mackerras / Omkhar
Allow protocol 254
slabtune Dave McCracken
Take slab in bigger bites on larger machines
fasync_lock_rcu Manfred Spraul
Use RCU for fasync_lock
vma_statistics Martin J. Bligh
Provide per VMA stats
physnode_map Martin J. Bligh
Hack around problem of missing area in physnode_map
sched_tunables R. Love / Darren Hart
Provide sched tunables to play with on a rainy day.
schedstats-tools Rick Lindsley
Grub around in lotsa scheduler statistics