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2.5.70-mjb2

From:  "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To:  linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  2.5.70-mjb2
Date:  Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:53:26 -0700
Cc:  lse-tech <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>

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/2.5.69/patch-2.5.69-mjb1.bz2

additional patches that can be applied if desired:

(these two form the qlogic feral driver)
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.67/2.5.67-mm1/broken-out/linux-isp.patch
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.67/2.5.67-mm1/broken-out/isp-update-1.patch

Since 2.5.70-mjb1 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped)

Notes: I've left out some shiny new bits people have sent me because there
       were a few things that were just broken. Fixing those up before
       piling more on. Various floating fixes merged back into their main
       elements to make maintaince easier (possible?)

Now in Linus' tree:

New:
+ numaq_apic_handling				Martin J. Bligh
	Fix numaq code to use phys apic ids
+ remove_x86_summit				Martin J. Bligh
	remove the magic switch - genarch is better
+ target_cpus					Martin J. Bligh
	Fix up target cpus mask handling
+ backout_locking				The ghost of patches past
	dcache_lock-vs-tasklist_lock broke my box. I'm grumpy.

Dropped:

- devfs_fixup					The ghost of patches past
	Some moron fat fingered a merge. OK, OK, so it was me.
	
Pending:
Hyperthreaded scheduler (Ingo Molnar)
scheduler callers profiling (Anton or Bill Hartner)
Child runs first (akpm)
Kexec
e1000 fixes
Update the lost timer ticks code
pidmaps_nodepages (Dave Hansen)
update membind code (Matt Dobson)
update config debug (Dave) 
update percpu_loadavg (Dave)
object based rmap list-o-lists (Martin / Dave Mc)
Locking obliteration (Dave Mc)

Present in this patch:

early_printk					Dave Hansen / Keith Mannthey
	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

numameminfo					Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey
	Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa

schedstat					Rick Lindsley
	Provide stats about the scheduler under /proc/schedstat

schedstat2					Rick Lindsley
	Provide more stats about the scheduler under /proc/schedstat

schedstat-scripts				Rick Lindsley
	Provide some scripts for schedstat analysis under scripts/

sched_tunables					Robert Love
	Provide tunable parameters for the scheduler (+ NUMA scheduler)

irq_affinity					Martin J. Bligh
	Workaround for irq_affinity on clustered apic mode systems (eg x440)

numaq_apic_handling				Martin J. Bligh
	Fix numaq code to use phys apic ids

remove_x86_summit				Martin J. Bligh
	remove the magic switch - genarch is better

target_cpus					Martin J. Bligh
	Fix up target cpus mask handling

partial_objrmap					Dave McCracken
	Object based rmap for filebacked pages.

kgdb						Andrew Morton
	The older version of kgdb, synched with 2.5.54-mm1

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

percpu_loadavg					Martin J. Bligh
	Provide per-cpu loadaverages, and real load averages

spinlock_inlining				Andrew Morton
	Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me.

summit_pcimap					Matt Dobson
	Provide pci bus -> node mapping for x440

lockmeter					John Hawkes / Hanna Linder
	Locking stats.

reiserfs_dio					Mingming Cao
	DIO for Reiserfs

sched_interactive				Ingo Molnar
	Bugfix for interactive scheduler

kgdb_cleanup					Martin J. Bligh
	Stop kgdb renaming schedule to do_schedule when it's not even enabled

acenic_fix					Martin J. Bligh
	Fix warning in acenic driver

local_balance_exec				Martin J. Bligh
	Modify balance_exec to use node-local queues when idle

tcp_speedup					Martin J. Bligh
	Speedup TCP (avoid double copy) as suggested by Linus

disable preempt					Martin J. Bligh
	I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents

sched_idle					Martin J. Bligh
	Call load_balance with proper idle flag (pointed out by John Hawkes)

ppc64 fixes					Anton Blanchard
	Various PPC64 fixes / updates

numameminfo fix					Martin J. Bligh
	Correct /proc/meminfo.numa for zholes_size.

config_debug					Martin J. Bligh
	Make '-g' for the kernel a config option

akpm_bear_pit					Andrew Morton
	Add a printk for some buffer error I was hitting

32bit_dev_t					Andries Brouwer
	Make dev_t 32 bit

dynamic_hd_struct				Badari Pulavarty
	Allocate hd_structs dynamically

lotsa_sds					Badari Pulavarty
	Create some insane number of sds

iosched_hashes					Badari Pulavarty
	Twiddle with the iosched hash tables for fun & profit

per_node_idt					Zwane Mwaikambo
	Per node IDT so we can do silly numbers of IO-APICs on NUMA-Q

config_numasched				Dave Hansen
	Turn NUMA scheduler into a config option

lockmeter_tytso					Ted Tso
	Fix lockmeter

aiofix2						Mingming Cao
	fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc()

config_irqbal					Keith Mannthey
	Make irqbalance a config option

fs_aio_1_retry					Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 1

fs_aio_2_read					Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 2

fs_aio_3_write					Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 3

fs_aio_4_down_wq				Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 4

fs_aio_5_wrdown_wq				Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 5

fs_aio_6_bread_wq				Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 6

fs_aio_7_ext2getblk_wq				Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 7

fs_aio_8_down_wq-ppc64				Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 8

fs_aio_9_down_wq-x86_64				Suparna Bhattacharya
	Filesystem aio. Chapter 9

backout_locking					The ghost of patches past
	dcache_lock-vs-tasklist_lock broke my box. I'm grumpy.

-mjb						Martin J. Bligh
	Add a tag to the makefile

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