Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:03:40 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | 2.5.59-mjb6 (scalability / NUMA patchset) |
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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.
http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/patch-2.5.59-mjb6.bz2
additional:
http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/pidmaps_nodepages
Since 2.5.59-mjb5 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)
Notes: Fixed bug between NFS and dcache, and some oprofile bug on UP. 4K stacks are back and crash dump support has arrived (thanks to Suparna for help merging and bufixing)
+ dcache_sunrpc Maneesh ~ cyclone_fixes John Stultz + oprofile_fixes John Levon + thread_info_cleanup Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise + interrupt_stacks Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise + stack_usage_check Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise + 4k_stack Dave Hansen + fix_kgdb Dave Hansen + stacks_from_slab Bill Irwin + thread_under_page Bill Irwin + lkcd LKCD team + alt_sysrq_t Russell King
Pending: kirq interrupt balancing patch (Nitin Kamble) auto_disable_tsc (John Stultz) 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
dcache_rcu Dipankar / Maneesh Use RCU type locking for the dentry cache.
dcache_sunrpc Maneesh Fix up NFS to work properly with dcache
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
local_pgdat William Lee Irwin Move the pgdat structure into the remapped space with lmem_map
numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa
notsc Martin Bligh Enable notsc option for NUMA-Q (new version for new config system)
mpc_apic_id Martin J. Bligh Fix null ptr dereference (optimised away, but ...)
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/stat
sched_tunables Robert Love Provide tunable parameters for the scheduler (+ NUMA scheduler)
discontig_x440 Pat Gaughen / IBM NUMA team SLIT/SRAT parsing for x440 discontigmem
acpi_x440_hack Anonymous Coward Stops x440 crashing, but owner is ashamed of it ;-)
summit_smp John Stultz Make Summit config options work on standard SMP
cyclone_fixes John Stultz Fix up some stuff for the x440's cyclone timer
enable_cyclone John Stultz Enable the x440's cyclone timer
lost_tick John Stultz Detect lost timer ticks
frlock_xtime Stephen Hemminger et al. Turn xtime_lock into an frlock to reduce contention
frlock-xtime-i386 Stephen Hemminger et al. Turn xtime_lock into an frlock to reduce contention
frlock-xtime-ia64 Stephen Hemminger et al. Turn xtime_lock into an frlock to reduce contention
frlock-xtime-other Stephen Hemminger et al. Turn xtime_lock into an frlock to reduce contention
numaq_ioapicids William Lee Irwin Stop 8 quad NUMA-Qs from panicing due to phys apicid "exhaustion".
oprofile_p4 John Levon Updates for oprofile for P4s. Needs new userspace tools.
starfire Ion Badulescu 64 bit aware starfire driver
tcp_fix Alexey Stop some tcp problem with hardware checksumming (e1000?)
numa_pci_fix Dave Hansen Fix a potential error in the numa pci code from Stanford Checker
pgd_ctor William Lee Irwin Use slabs for pgd
pfn_to_nid William Lee Irwin Turn pfn_to_nid into a macro
oprofile_fixes John Levon fix a couple of bugs in oprofile
kprobes Vamsi Krishna S Add kernel probes hooks to the kernel
dmc_exit1 Dave McCracken Speed up the exit path, pt 1.
dmc_exit2 Dave McCracken Speed up the exit path, pt 1.
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
alt_sysrq_t Russell King Fix up ALT+sysrq+t
-mjb Martin Bligh Add a tag to the makefile
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