Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:08:01 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | 2.5.59-mjb3 (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-mjb3.bz2
Since 2.5.59-mjb2 (~ = 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).
~ early_printk Dave Hansen et al. ~ interrupt_stacks (4K stacks pt 2) Dave Hansen / Ben LaHaise - sysfs_fix Pat Gaughen + srat_fixes Pat Gaughen + summit_smp John Stultz + pgd_ctor William Lee Irwin + pfn_to_nid William Lee Irwin + pidmaps_nodepages Dave Hansen
Pending: auto_disable_tsc (John Stultz) scheduler callers profiling (Anton) PPC64 NUMA patches (Anton) Child runs first (akpm) New qlogic driver (Badari ??) Kexec Linux Kernel Crash Dump Kprobes e1000 fixes
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
srat_fixes Pat Gaughen Fix sysfs for x440 machines, and make srat conditional on NUMA
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
pidmaps_nodepages Dave Hansen Display NUMA information in /proc/pid/maps
-mjb Martin Bligh Add a tag to the makefile
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