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-mjb2.bz2
Since 2.5.59-mjb1 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)
Notes:
Added frlock xtime patches, cyclone timer fixes, sched stats.
I have new code for 4K stacks, but haven't applied it yet (next release).
+ schedstat Rick Lindsley
~ sched_tuneables Robert Love
- topo_hack Pat Gaughen
+ sysfs_fix Pat Gaughen
+ cyclone_fixes John Stultz
+ enable_cyclone John Stultz
+ lost_tick John Stultz
+ frlock_xtime Stephen Hemminger et al.
+ frlock_xtime-i386 Stephen Hemminger et al.
+ frlock_xtime-ia64 Stephen Hemminger et al.
+ frlock_xtime-other Stephen Hemminger et al.
+ tcp_fix Alexey
+ numa_pci_fix Dave Hansen
Pending:
Revised 4K stacks code
Notsc automatic enablement (someone, please ... anyone?)
scheduler callers profiling (Anton)
PPC64 NUMA patches (Anton)
Child runs first (akpm)
New qlogic driver (Badari ??)
Kexec
Linux Kernel Crash Dump
dcache_rcu Dipankar / Maneesh
Use RCU type locking for the dentry cache.
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)
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
discontig_x440 Pat Gaughen / Chandra
SLIT/SRAT parsing for x440 discontigmem
sysfs_fix Pat Gaughen
Fix sysfs for x440 machines instead of some topo hack ;-)
acpi_x440_hack Anonymous Coward
Stops x440 crashing, but owner is ashamed of it ;-)
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
-mjb Martin Bligh
Add a tag to the makefile
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