Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:19:37 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | 2.5.63-mjb1 (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.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.5.63/patch-2.5.63-mjb 1.bz2
additional:
http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/pidmaps_nodepages
Since 2.5.62-mjb3 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)
Notes:
Merged with Linus:
- fix_was_sched Ingo / wli / Rick Lindsley - kirq_clustered_fix Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh
Dropped:
- acpi_x440_hack (proper fix merged) Anonymous Coward - auto_disable_tsc John Stultz
New:
+ acpi_16way John Stultz + schedstat2 Rick Lindsley + nfs_fix Trond Myklebust + nonzero_apicid Martin J. Bligh + objrmap_fix 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:
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
schedstat2 Rick Lindsley Provide more stats about the scheduler under /proc/stat
sched_tunables Robert Love Provide tunable parameters for the scheduler (+ NUMA scheduler)
early_ioremap Dave Hansen Provide ioremap in very early boot when we only have 8Mb address space
x440disco_A0 Pat Gaughen / IBM NUMA team SLIT/SRAT parsing for x440 discontigmem
acpi_16way John Stultz Make ACPI cope with multi-page something-or-others.
numa_pci_fix Dave Hansen Fix a potential error in the numa pci code from Stanford Checker
pfn_to_nid William Lee Irwin Turn pfn_to_nid into a macro
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
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)
no_kirq Martin J. Bligh Allow disabling of kirq to work properly
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
-mjb Martin J. Bligh Add a tag to the makefile
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