Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 00:52:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 00:52:28 -0500 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:16795 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 00:52:24 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:03:09 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: linux-kernel cc: lse-tech Subject: 2.5.64-mjb5 (scalability / NUMA patchset) Message-ID: <4120000.1047880989@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <10770000.1047787269@[10.10.2.4]> References: <169550000.1046895443@[10.10.2.4]> <475260000.1047172886@[10.10.2.4]> <85960000.1047532556@[10.10.2.4]> <10770000.1047787269@[10.10.2.4]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5328 Lines: 178 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. NOTE - you will have to apply -bk10 before applying this release. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/snapshots/patch-2.5.64-bk10.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.5.64/patch-2.5.64-bk10-mjb5.bz2 additional: http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/pidmaps_nodepages Since 2.5.64-mjb4 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped) Notes: merged up to 64-bk10 ... seems 65 will be a while. Now in Linus' tree: - common_physmap Andy Whitcroft - pfn_to_nid_inline Andy Whitcroft - numa_x86_pc Andy Whitcroft - physnode_map_u8 Andy Whitcroft - profiling_docs Martin J. Bligh - align_files_lock Martin J. Bligh - pfn_valid Andy Whitcroft - ingosched Ingo Molnar - serial_console_warning Martin J. Bligh - sysfs_fix Pat Mochel - kmem_cache_size Christoph Hellwig - vm_area_struct Hugh Dickens New: + concurrent_inode Alex Tomas + sched_interactive Ingo Molnar + kgdb_cleanup Martin J. Bligh + numa_protector Martin J. Bligh / Dave Hansen Pending: Hyperthreaded scheduler (Ingo Molnar) objrmap bugfixes for nonlinear vma's (Dave McCracken) Seperate kernel PMDs per process (Dave Hansen) Non-PAE aligned kernel splits (Dave Hansen) scheduler callers profiling (Anton or Bill Hartner) PPC64 NUMA patches (Anton) Child runs first (akpm) Kexec e1000 fixes Update the lost timer ticks code Present in this patch: doaction Martin J. Bligh Fix cruel torture of macros and small furry animals in io_apic.c 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 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) irq_affinity Martin J. Bligh Workaround for irq_affinity on clustered apic mode systems (eg x440) cleaner_inodes Andrew Morton Make noatime filesystems more efficient 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 / Various People 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 get_empty_filp Manfred Spraul Kill the lock contention on files_lock from get_empty_filp ... files_lock_goodness Andrew Morton ... and drive a silver stake through it's heart. 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 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. debkl_ext2_readdir Alex Tomas Don't take the BKL in ext2_readdir 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 numa_protector Martin J. Bligh / Dave Hansen Stop people shooting themselves in the foot with CONFIG_NUMA -mjb Martin J. Bligh Add a tag to the makefile - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/