From: Martin J. B. <mb...@ar...> - 2003-03-05 20:17:34
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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/2.5.64/patch-2.5.64-mjb1.bz2 additional: http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/pidmaps_nodepages Since 2.5.63-mjb2 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped) Notes: Merged with Linus: - local_pgdat William Lee Irwin - mpc_apic_id Martin J. Bligh - pfn_to_nid William Lee Irwin - pcibus_to_cpumask Matt Dobson - no_kirq Martin J. Bligh - notsc Martin Bligh - numa_pci_fix Dave Hansen - early_ioremap Dave Hansen - x440disco_A0 Pat Gaughen / IBM NUMA team - acpi_16way John Stultz New: + align_files_lock Martin J. Bligh + objrmap_mapcount Dave McCracken Pending: scheduler callers profiling (Anton) PPC64 NUMA patches (Anton) Child runs first (akpm) Kexec e1000 fixes Non-PAE aligned kernel splits (Dave Hansen) Update the lost timer ticks code Ingo scheduler updates Present in this patch: common_physmap Andy Whitcroft merge physnode_map implementations from numaq and summit pfn_to_nid_inline Andy Whitcroft converts the pfn_to_nid macro into an inline numa_x86_pc Andy Whitcroft adds basic numa support for flat systems physnode_map_u8 Andy Whitcroft converts physnode_map array to u8 (save cache polution) profiling_docs Martin J. Bligh Basic profiling docs align_files_lock Martin J. Bligh Cacheline align files_lock pfn_valid Andy Whitcroft fixes up a bug in copy_page_range 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 doaction Martin J. Bligh Fix cruel torture of macros and small furry animals in io_apic.c kgdb Andrew Morton / Various People The older version of kgdb, synched with 2.5.54-mm1 noframeptr Martin Bligh Disable -fomit_frame_pointer ingosched Ingo Molnar Modify NUMA scheduler to have independant tick basis. 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) kprobes Vamsi Krishna S Add kernel probes hooks to the kernel # dmc_exit Dave McCracken Speed up the exit path. # shpte Dave McCracken Shared pagetables (as a config option) 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 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 nfs_fix Trond Myklebust Fix some bug or other in NFS that seems to bite people as a race. nonzero_apicid Martin J. Bligh Cope with boot cpu != mpstable boot cpu. 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 -mjb Martin J. Bligh Add a tag to the makefile |