The patchset contains ... oh hell, anything I feel like putting in it.
It's meant to be pretty stable - performance should be better than mainline,
particularly on larger machines.
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/2.6.1-rc1/patch-2.6.1-rc1-mjb1.bz2
Since 2.6.0-mjb2 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)
Notes:
Now includes kexec and the new kgdb-over-ethernet code ... please test!
Sound under xmms, and other code that uses OSS emulation interfaces to
ALSA drivers should sound a whole load better than mainline with this release.
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Now in Linus' tree:
- vm86_sysenter_fix Brian Gerst
Re-enable sysenter after task switch
- readahead_fixes Ram Pai
Fix performance bugs in readahead
- readahead_simplfiy Ram Pai
Simplify the readahead code
- slab_reclaim_accounting Manfred Spraul
Fix slab reclaim accounting
Dropped:
New:
+ smp_boot_id Martin J. Bligh
Fix panic if boot cpu's phys apicid doesn't match expected.
+ sysfs_backing_store1 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
+ sysfs_backing_store2 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
+ sysfs_backing_store3 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
+ sysfs_backing_store4 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
+ sysfs_backing_store5 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
+ gcov warning fix Martin J. Bligh
remove "export-objs" from gcov.
Pending:
config_numasched
list_of_lists
Hyperthreaded scheduler (Ingo Molnar)
Child runs first (akpm)
pidmaps_nodepages (Dave Hansen)
Netdump
Netconsole
Present in this patch:
netdrvr_2.6.1_rc1_exp1 Jeff Garzik
Net driver kit, including the netpoll infrastructure.
kgdb Various
Stolen from akpm's 2.6.0-mm1, includes fixes
kgdboe_netpoll Matt Mackall et al.
Kgdb over ethernet support that works with the netpoll infrastructure
ppc64_bar_0_fix Anton Blanchard
PPC 64 fixups
ppc64_reloc_hide Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras
PPC 64 fixups
ppc64_sched_clock_fix Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras
PPC 64 fixups
ppc64_use_statfs64 Anton Blanchard
PPC 64 fixups
ppc64_compat_clock Olaf Hering
PPC 64 fixups
ppc64_numa_sign_extn Anton Blanchard
PPC 64 fixups
ppc64_IRQ_INPROGRESS_fix Anton Blanchard
PPC 64 fixups
spinlock_inlining Andrew Morton & Martin J. Bligh
Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me.
lockmeter John Hawkes / Hanna Linder
Locking stats.
oops_dump_preceding_code Andrew Morton
dump opcodes preceding and after the offending EIP.
4g4g Ingo Molnar
Provide a 4G/4G user/kernel split for 32 bit memory lushes.
lotsa_sds Badari
Enable lots of scsi disks
x86-64 Andi Kleen et al.
x86_64 patch kit, 2.6.0-1
early_printk Dave Hansen / Keith Mannthey
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
sched_tunables Robert Love
Provide tunable parameters for the scheduler (+ NUMA scheduler)
partial_objrmap Dave McCracken
Object based rmap for filebacked pages.
local_balance_exec Martin J. Bligh
Modify balance_exec to use node-local queues when idle
tcp_speedup Martin J. Bligh
Speedup TCP (avoid double copy) as suggested by Linus
disable preempt Martin J. Bligh
I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents
aiofix2 Mingming Cao
fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc()
config_irqbal Keith Mannthey
Make irqbalance a config option
percpu_real_loadavg Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh
Tell me what the real load average is, and tell me per cpu.
per_node_rss Matt Dobson
Track which nodes tasks mem is on, so sched can be sensible.
pfn_to_nid Martin J. Bligh
Dance around the twisted rats nest of crap in i386 include.
gfp_node_strict Dave Hansen
Add a node strict binding as a gfp mask option
irqbal_fast Adam Litke
Balance IRQs more readily
kcg Adam Litke
Acylic call graphs from the kernel. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
numa_mem_equals Dave Hansen
mem= command line parameter NUMA awareness.
schedstat Rick Lindsley
Provide lotsa scheduler statistics
schedstat_arches Rick Lindsley
Make schedstats support PPC, PPC64, x86_64 as well as ia32
autoswap Con Kolivas
Auto-tune swapiness
mbind_part1 Matt Dobson
Bind some memory for NUMA.
mbind_part2 Matt Dobson
Bind some more memory for NUMA.
emulex driver Emulex
Driver for emulex fiberchannel cards
qlogic Qlogic / Mike Anderson
Now qla2xxx-8.00.00b8-1
protocol254 Paul Mackerras / Omkhar
Allow protocol 254
slabtune Dave McCracken
Take slab in bigger bites on larger machines
less_bouncy Martin J. Bligh
Stop bouncing warm tasks cross node
topdown Bill Irwin
Turn userspace upside down for fun & profit
sysfs_vs_dcache Maneesh Soni
Fix race.
pci_topology Matt Dobson
Expose PCI NUMA topology to userspace
stacktrace Adam Litke
Stack backtracing via frame pointers
implicit_huge_pages Adam Litke / wli / Brian T.
Implicit huge pages for mmap and shmem
user_text_replication Dave Hansen
Replicate read-only user text.
fasync_lock_rcu Manfred Spraul
Use RCU for fasync_lock
lockmeter_ia64 Ray Bryant
Add a config option for lockmeter on ia64
4g4g_sep_fix Ingo Molnar
Fix SEP on 4g/4g split
4g4g_sysenter_test_fix Arjan
Fix sysenter detection
4g4g_locked_copy Dave McCracken
Locked copy to userspace
kexec Eric Biederman et al.
Exec a kernel for breakfast today.
alsa_100rc2 ALSA project
New code drop of sound infrastructure - fixes various bugs.
force_wholefrag Martin J. Bligh et al.
OSS emulation sounds like crap without wholefrag. Revert that change.
lockmeter_notsc Martin J. Bligh
Lockmeter does not require CONFIG_X86_TSC.
smp_boot_id Martin J. Bligh
Fix panic if boot cpu's phys apicid doesn't match expected.
sysfs_backing_store1 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
sysfs_backing_store2 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
sysfs_backing_store3 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
sysfs_backing_store4 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
sysfs_backing_store5 Maneesh Soni
Provide a backing store for sysfs out of permanent KVA space.
-mjb Martin J. Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile
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> The patchset contains ... oh hell, anything I feel like putting in it.
> It's meant to be pretty stable - performance should be better than mainline,
> particularly on larger machines.
>
> 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/2.6.1-rc1/patch-2.6.1-rc1-mjb1.bz2
Hi there...
Have you thought in doing a patch-2.6.1-rc1-mm1-mjb1 and continuing to make a
patchset to the -mm sources?
Best regards,
Mind Booster Noori
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>> The patchset contains ... oh hell, anything I feel like putting in it.
>> It's meant to be pretty stable - performance should be better than mainline,
>> particularly on larger machines.
>>
>> 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/2.6.1-rc1/patch-2.6.1-rc1-mjb1.bz2
>
> Hi there...
>
> Have you thought in doing a patch-2.6.1-rc1-mm1-mjb1 and continuing to make a
> patchset to the -mm sources?
I considered it once, for about 30s - the answer was no. For one, Andrew
moves way too fast for me to keep up with. For another, he has different
objectives - he basically runs a testing tree, whereas I want to go for
something more stable, with cherry picked enhancements (mostly performance
and serviceability stuff).
There's a fair amount of common code between the two trees, which I try
to keep pretty much in sync between the two - I pick up changes he makes
from his latest trees, and send him changes I make.
M.
I'm just wondering how the HT schedular merge is coming? I'm interesting in getting a better/new one for some testing so I wondered how it was coming along with it being ported to 2.6.1-rc1.
-DaMouse
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:42:26PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Now in Linus' tree:
> - readahead_fixes Ram Pai
> Fix performance bugs in readahead
Boo! ;)
Hopefuly that'll be backed out of Linus' tree. Since it has caused
regressions. Has Ram Pai been notified of the hdparm -t regression?
There is an active thread about this on lkml right now.
> I'm just wondering how the HT schedular merge is coming? I'm interesting
> in getting a better/new one for some testing so I wondered how it was
> coming along with it being ported to 2.6.1-rc1.
Ingo's scheduler crashes on boot for me. I haven't tried Nick's stuff in
a while, but it's pretty extensive, and comes with a lot of stuff that'll
conflict with what I currently have, so not much fun to merge probably.
Does Nick's stuff work for you?
M.