Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:15:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:15:40 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:6581 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:15:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] 2.5.64-mjb2 (scalability / NUMA patchset) From: Keith Mannthey To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-kernel , lse-tech In-Reply-To: <68610000.1048492678@[10.10.2.4]> References: <169550000.1046895443@[10.10.2.4]> <68610000.1048492678@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 27 Mar 2003 16:29:27 -0800 Message-Id: <1048811368.1076.22.camel@dyn9-47-17-180.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6587 Lines: 213 Martin, I seem be having problems booting this on a UP box with you patch. It dies very early (with and without early printk turned on) with no output the the screen. What config options should not be turned on with your tree? Have you ever booted mjb trees on non-SMP systems? if so please send .config. Thanks, Keith On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 23:57, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > 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/2.5.65/patch-2.5.65-mjb > 2.bz2 > > additional: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.5.65/400-shpte > http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/pidmaps_nodepages > > Since 2.5.65-mjb1 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped) > > Notes: Broke shpte out separately, it seems a little fragile under certain > workloads at the moment. > > Now in Linus' tree: > > New: > + 3c509_fix Martin J. Bligh > + acenic_fix Martin J. Bligh > + sisfix Martin J. Bligh > + vm_enough_memory Andrew Morton > + scsi_sysfs_fix Martin J. Bligh > + local_balance_exec Martin J. Bligh > > 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 > > 3c509_fix Martin J. Bligh > Fix warning in 3c509 driver. > > acenic_fix Martin J. Bligh > Fix warning in acenic driver > > sisfix Martin J. Bligh > Fix warning & bug in sis900 driver > > vm_enough_memory Andrew Morton > Give vm_enough_memory cpu local pools for virtual accounting > > scsi_sysfs_fix Martin J. Bligh > Fix error in scsi_sysfs. > > local_balance_exec Martin J. Bligh > Modify balance_exec to use node-local queues when idle > > -mjb Martin J. 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