Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 30, 2002

From: Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 07:28:24 EST


Hi Guillaume,

Another work in progress in our group - Scalable statistics counters
by Ravikiran Thirumalai.

Here is the lkml discussion -
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100755030000002&r=1&w=2

We are working on the suggestions regarding /proc integration.

Thanks
Dipankar

-- 
Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.

In article <3C573F6B.19221.1E703BBF@localhost> Guillaume Boissiere wrote: > The latest list is available at: http://kernelnewbies.org/status/ > Items in bold are changes since last week.

> The big thing in the past week is the work done on driverfs by > Patrick Mochel, which started to appear in 2.5 > If you are a driver maintainer, you may want to look at this :-)

> As usual, let me know of any inaccuracies, and I'll be happy to > correct them. > Enjoy!

> -- Guillaume

> -------------------------------------------------- > Kernel 2.5 status - January 30th, 2002 > (Latest kernel release is 2.5.3pre6)

> Features:

> o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar, Davide Libenzi) > o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe) > o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds, etc.) > o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, etc.) > o Merged Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul) > o Merged IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick) > o Merged New driver API for Wireless Extensions (1/2) (Jean Tourrilhes)

> o Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds) > o Pending New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel) > o in -dj Porting all input devices over to input API (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)

> o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike) > o Ready HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof Halasa) > o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team) > o Ready Support reiserfs external journal (Reiserfs team) > o Ready Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors team) > o Ready Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love) > o Ready Generic ACL (Access Control List) support (Nathan Scott)

> o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens) > o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)

> o Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven) > o Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King) > o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe) > o Beta NAPI Network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov) > o Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team) > o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel) > o Beta Add resheduling points to remove latency (Andrew Morton) > o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour) > o Beta Better event logging for enterprise systems (evlog team) > o Beta Add Linux Security Module (LSM) (LSM team) > o Beta Hotplug CPU support (Rusty Russell) > o Beta Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro) > o Beta EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (EVMS team)

> o Alpha Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team) > o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise) > o Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds) > o Alpha Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov) > o Alpha More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code) > o Alpha LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0 (Heintz Mauelshagen, Andreas Dilger, LVM team) > o Alpha Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, LSE Team) > o Alpha Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI > team) > o Alpha Linux booting ELF images (Eric Biederman) > o Alpha First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric Biederman) > o Alpha UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite (Al Viro) > * Alpha Scalable CPU bitmaps (Russ Weight)

> o Started Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons) > o Started Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) > o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code) > o Started Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, etc.) > o Started Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers) > * Started Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs team) > * Started Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface (ISDN4Linux team)

> o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg Kroah-Hartman) > o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro) > o Planning Add thrashing control (Rik van Riel) > o Planning Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel (Alan Cox, etc.) > o Planning Generic parameter/command line interface (Keith Owens) > o Planning New mount API (Al Viro) > * Planning New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Dave Jones)

> Cleanups:

> * Merged Break Configure.help into multiple files (Linus Torvalds)

> o Ready Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) > o Ready Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type (Al Viro) > o Ready ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes (Al Viro)

> o Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin LaHaise) > o Beta Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh Soni, IBM team) > o Beta Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups (Al Viro) > o Beta Lifting limitations on mount(2) (Al Viro)

> o Started Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik) > o Started Killing kdev_t for block devices (Al Viro) > * Started Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap) > * Started Reorder x86 initialization (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)

> Have some free time and want to help? Check out the Kernel Janitor TO DO list for a list of source code > cleanups you can work on. A great place to start learning more about kernel internals!

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