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/2.5.59/patch-2.5.59-mjb
7.bz2
additional:
http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.59/pidmaps_nodepages
Since 2.5.59-mjb6 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)
Notes:
+ fix_was_sched Ingo / wli / Rick Lindsley
+ kirq Nitin Kamble
+ kirq_clustered Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh
+ irq_affinity Martin J. Bligh
+ no_kirq Martin J. Bligh
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
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
fix_was_sched Ingo / wli / Rick Lindsley
Fix hangs in the scheduler.
kirq Nitin Kamble
Provide better interrupt balancing
kirq_clustered Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh
Fix kirq for clustered apic systems (eg x440)
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
-mjb Martin Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile
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