- 10 9月, 2005 40 次提交
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
If no EDID block is probed, if the display is digital and if no mode option is specified by the user, get the timings by CVT instead of using the global mode database. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
The Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) is the latest standard approved by VESA concerning video timings generation. It addresses the limitation of GTF which is designed mainly for CRT displays. CRT's have a high blanking requirement (as much as 25% of the horizontal frame length) which artificially increases the pixelclock. Digital displays, on the other hand, needs to conserve the pixelclock as much as possible. The GTF also does not take into account the different aspect ratios in its calculation. The new function added is fb_find_mode_cvt(). It is called by fb_find_mode() if it recognizes a mode option string formatted for CVT. The format is: <xres>x<yres>[M][R][-<bpp>][<at-sign><refresh>][i][m] The 'M' tells the function to calculate using CVT. On it's own, it will compute a timing for CRT displays at 60Hz. If the 'R' is specified, 'reduced blanking' computation will be used, best for flatpanels. The 'i' and the 'm' is for 'interlaced mode' and 'with margins' respectively. To determine if CVT was used, check for dmesg for something like this: CVT Mode - <pix>M<n>[-R], ie: .480M3-R (800x600 reduced blanking) where: pix - product of xres and yres, in MB M - is a CVT mode n - the aspect ratio (3 - 4:3; 4 - 5:4; 9 - 16:9, 15:9; A - 16:10) -R - reduced blanking Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Daniel Burcaw 提交于
This patch changes radeon to request only resources 0 and 2 instead of all 3. This works around problems with some setups where BAR 1 (IO BAR) has not been assigned by the firmware since it's not used on the machine and the kernel fails to assign something to it due to the card being between a P2P bridge that was configured without an IO range at all. This typically fixes radeonfb on some Apple Xserve G5 machines Signed-off-by: NDaniel Burcaw <dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Knut Petersen 提交于
This trivial patch gives a performance boost to the framebuffer console Constructing the bitmaps that are given to the bitblit functions of the framebuffer drivers is time consuming. Here we avoide a call to the slow fb_pad_aligned_buffer(). The patch replaces that call with a simple but much more efficient bytewise copy. The kernel spends a significant time at this place if you use 8x* fonts. Every pixel displayed on your screen is prepared here. Some benchmark results: Displaying a file of 2000 lines with 160 characters each takes 889 ms system time using cyblafb on my system (I´m using a 1280x1024 video mode, resulting in a 160x64 character console) Displaying the same file with the enclosed patch applied to 2.6.13 only takes 760 ms system time, saving 129 ms or 14.5%. Font widths other than 8 are not affected. The advantage and correctness of this patch should be obvious. Signed-off-by: NKnut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Knut Petersen 提交于
This is a framebuffer driver for the Cyberblade/i1 graphics core. Currently tridenfb claims to support the cyberblade/i1 graphics core. This is of very limited truth. Even vesafb is faster and provides more working modes and a much better quality of the video signal. There is a great number of bugs in tridentfb ... but most often it is impossible to decide if these bugs are real bugs or if fixing them for the cyberblade/i1 core would break support for one of the other supported chips. Tridentfb seems to be unmaintained,and documentation for most of the supported chips is not available. So "fixing" cyberblade/i1 support inside of tridentfb was not an option, it would have caused numerous if(CYBERBLADEi1) else ... cases and would have rendered the code to be almost unmaintainable. A first version of this driver was published on 2005-07-31. A fix for a bug reported by Jochen Hein was integrated as well as some changes requested by Antonino A. Daplas. A message has been added to tridentfb to inform current users of tridentfb to switch to cyblafb if the cyberblade/i1 graphics core is detected. This patch is one logical change, but because of the included documentation it is bigger than 70kb. Therefore it is not sent to lkml and linux-fbdev-devel, Signed-off-by: NKnut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> Acked-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Olaf Hering 提交于
err remains uninitialized of pci_request_regions fails. Found by Thorsten Kukuk, I added a few more checks. Signed-off-by: NOlaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Thomas Winischhofer 提交于
This lifts sisfb from version 1.7.17 to version 1.8.9. Changes include: - Added support for XGI V3XT, V5, V8, Z7 chipsets, including POSTing of all of these chipsets. - Added support for latest SiS chipsets (761). - Added support for SiS76x memory "hybrid" mode. - Added support for new LCD resolutions (eg 1280x854, 856x480). - Fixed support for 320x240 STN panels (for embedded devices). - Fixed many HDTV modes (525p, 750p, 1080i). - Fixed PCI config register reading/writing to use proper kernel functions for this purpose. - Fixed PCI ROM handling to use the kernel's proper functions. - Removed lots of "typedef"s. - Removed lots of code which was for X.org/XFree86 only. - Fixed coding style in many places. - Removed lots of 2.4 cruft. - Reduced stack size by unifying two previously separate structs into one. - Added new hooks for memory allocation (for DRM). Now the driver can truly handle multiple cards, including memory management. - Fixed numerous minor bugs. Signed-off-by: NThomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Ian Romanick 提交于
This updates the matroxfb code so that it can find the PInS data embedded in the BIOS on PowerPC cards. The process for finding the data is different on OpenFirmware cards than on x86 cards, and the code for doing so was missing. After patching, building, installing, and booting a kernel, you should grep for "PInS" in /var/log/messages. You should see two messages in the log: PInS data found at offset XXXXX PInS memtype = X On the GXT135p card I get "31168" and "5". The first value is irrelevant, but it's presence lets me know that the PInS data was actually found. On a GXT130p, the second value should be 3. Since I don't have access to that hardware, if someone can verify that, I will submit a follow-on patch that rips out all the memtype parameter stuff. Signed-off-by: NIan Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPetr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
The link for ATI's product page in drivers/video/Kconfig for FB_RADEON is broken. Replace with a product comparison page. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Alexander Kern 提交于
Currently, atyfb has code that sets the hsync and vsync polarity based on the current video mode, without letting the user override the settings. Remove this particular code. The sync polarities are set by the PROM, the user or by the videomode. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Kern <alex.kern@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
On a vc resize, the contents of the old screen buffer are transferred to the new screenbuffer. If the new screenbuffer is smaller than the old one, only the contents from the bottom are copied to new. If the contents of the old buffer are located at the top, then the contents will not be copied to the new buffer resulting in a blank screen. This bug will happen only if the vc in question is not in the foreground. Doing an fbset -a or con2fbmap will trigger this bug. To fix this problem, base the start of the copy from the location of the current cursor. If the cursor is near the top of the buffer, copy the contents at the top, and if the cursor is near the bottom of the buffer, then copy the contents at the bottom. In the unlikely case where the new row size is greater than 2x smaller than the old one, and the cursor is in the middle, copy 1/2 screenful from the top and bottom of the cursor position. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
Currently, the default linux 16-colors are converted to 4-colors by simply dividing the values by 4. However, this is not necessarily correct since the first 4 colors are converted to black, rendering them invisible. So, for black, no conversion; for light colors, convert to gray, for normal text color, no conversion, and for bright colors, convert to intense white. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
Currently, fbcon assumes that the visual FB_VISUAL_MONO* is always 1 bit. According to Geert, there are old hardware where it's possible to have monochrome at 8-bit, but has only 2 colors, black - 0x00 and white - 0xff. Fix color handlers (fb_get_color_depth, and get_color) for this special case. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
If nvidiafb fails to probe the EDID block, get the EDID from the BIOS. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
- Fallback to firmware EDID if chipset has no DDC/I2C support or if I2C probing failed - Add fb_blank hook - Fix savagefb_suspend/resume to enable driver to successfully suspend and resume from S3, memory or disk Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
For the i386, code is already present in video.S that gets the EDID from the video BIOS. Make this visible so drivers can also use this data as fallback when i2c does not work. To ensure that the EDID block is returned for the primary graphics adapter only, by check if the IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW flag is set. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 David Vrabel 提交于
Geode framebuffer driver updates: - Local mode list (taken from modedb.c) containing only relevant modes. This also makes the driver work as a module. - Make it a PCI driver (from James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>). - A few other minor cosmetic bits and pieces. Signed-off-by: NDavid Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 James Simmons 提交于
This patch removes drivers that have hardware cursors from calling the software cursor code. Also if the driver sets a no hardware cursor flag then the driver reports a error it someone attempts to use the cursor. Signed-off-by: NJames Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
Add rudimentary support by manipulating the VGA registers. However, not all vesa modes are VGA compatible, so VGA compatiblity is checked first. Only 2 levels are supported, powerup and powerdown. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Antonino A. Daplas 提交于
Add capability to fbdev to listen to the FB_ACTIVATE_ALL flag. If set, it notifies fbcon that all consoles must be set to the current var. Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
This patch attempts to do a better job of cleaning up after detecting errors on the transport. This should also improve error reporting on broken connections to servers. Signed-off-by: NLatchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
LANL reported some issues with random crashes during mount of legacy protocol servers (9P2000 versus 9P2000.u) -- crash was always happening in readlink (which should never happen in legacy mode). Added some sanity conditionals to the get_inode code which should prevent the errors LANL was seeing. Code tested benign through regression. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
Fix v9fs special files (block, char devices) support. Signed-off-by: NLatchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
Cleanup code in v9fs vfs_inode as suggested by Alexey Dobriyan. Did some major revamping of the v9fs setattr code to remove unnecessary allocations and clean up some dead-code. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
Change magic error numbers to system defined constants in v9fs error.h As suggested by Jan-Benedict Glaw. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
This part of the patch contains debug and other misc routines. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
Support for force umount Signed-off-by: NLatchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
This part of the patch contains transport routines. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NLatchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
This part of the patch contains the 9P protocol functions. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
This part of the patch contains VFS superblock and mapping code. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
This part of the patch contains the VFS inode interfaces. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
This part of the patch contains the VFS file, dentry & directory interfaces. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric Van Hensbergen 提交于
OVERVIEW V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P. It can be used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers (such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as FUSE). BACKGROUND Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++. Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and 2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public License in 2003. The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985. Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing. Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an environment to use remote application components or services in place of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command line instructions. For the most part, application implementations operated independent of the location of their actual resources. Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by the use of different complicated protocols for individual services, and separate implementations for kernel and application resources. The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing protocol. V9FS HISTORY V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997. In November of 2001, Greg Watson setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which supported the Linux 2.4 kernel. About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5 kernel. I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style guidelines. I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005 conference in April 2005: ( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing its integration into the official kernel tree. We would appreciate any review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community. STATUS The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases our regression tests haven't discovered yet. It is in regular use by several of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC (32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments. Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark. It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the protocol support versus a rich set of features. For example: a more complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but excluded from this release. Additionally, we have removed support for mmap operations at Al Viro's request. PERFORMANCE Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark. Somewhat preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html). RESOURCES The source code is available in a few different forms: tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/ CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org) 9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564 The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution or from http://v9fs.sf.net Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary version can be downloaded from sourceforge. Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc). There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration file changes. Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dipankar Sarma 提交于
Add documentation describing the new locking scheme for file descriptor table. Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dipankar Sarma 提交于
With the use of RCU in files structure, the look-up of files using fds can now be lock-free. The lookup is protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(). This patch changes the readers to use lock-free lookup. Signed-off-by: NManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NRavikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dipankar Sarma 提交于
Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter. The updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and setting files->fdt to point to the new structure. The fdtable structure is protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup. For fd arrays/sets that are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep. A global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list. If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer queueing of that work. Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference() premitives instead. This required that the fd information is kept in a separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically. Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dipankar Sarma 提交于
Fix sparc64 timod to use the new files_fdtable() api to get the fd table. This is necessary for RCUification. Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dipankar Sarma 提交于
In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must be updated atomically. Instead of ensuring this through too many memory barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure. This patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct. It also changes all the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro. Subsequent applciation of RCU becomes easier after this. Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dipankar Sarma 提交于
Adds a set of primitives to do reference counting for objects that are looked up without locks using RCU. Signed-off-by: NRavikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Dipankar Sarma 提交于
First of a number of files_lock scaability patches. Here are the x86 numbers - tiobench on a 4(8)-way (HT) P4 system on ramdisk : (lockfree) Test 2.6.10-vanilla Stdev 2.6.10-fd Stdev ------------------------------------------------------------- Seqread 1400.8 11.52 1465.4 34.27 Randread 1594 8.86 2397.2 29.21 Seqwrite 242.72 3.47 238.46 6.53 Randwrite 445.74 9.15 446.4 9.75 The performance improvement is very significant. We are getting killed by the cacheline bouncing of the files_struct lock here. Writes on ramdisk (ext2) seems to vary just too much to get any meaningful number. Also, With Tridge's thread_perf test on a 4(8)-way (HT) P4 xeon system : 2.6.12-rc5-vanilla : Running test 'readwrite' with 8 tasks Threads 0.34 +/- 0.01 seconds Processes 0.16 +/- 0.00 seconds 2.6.12-rc5-fd : Running test 'readwrite' with 8 tasks Threads 0.17 +/- 0.02 seconds Processes 0.17 +/- 0.02 seconds I repeated the measurements on ramfs (as opposed to ext2 on ramdisk in the earlier measurement) and I got more consistent results from tiobench : 4(8) way xeon P4 ----------------- (lock-free) Test 2.6.12-rc5 Stdev 2.6.12-rc5-fd Stdev ------------------------------------------------------------- Seqread 1282 18.59 1343.6 26.37 Randread 1517 7 2415 34.27 Seqwrite 702.2 5.27 709.46 5.9 Randwrite 846.86 15.15 919.68 21.4 4-way ppc64 ------------ (lock-free) Test 2.6.12-rc5 Stdev 2.6.12-rc5-fd Stdev ------------------------------------------------------------- Seqread 1549 91.16 1569.6 47.2 Randread 1473.6 25.11 1585.4 69.99 Seqwrite 1096.8 20.03 1136 29.61 Randwrite 1189.6 4.04 1275.2 32.96 Also running Tridge's thread_perf test on ppc64 : 2.6.12-rc5-vanilla -------------------- Running test 'readwrite' with 4 tasks Threads 0.20 +/- 0.02 seconds Processes 0.16 +/- 0.01 seconds 2.6.12-rc5-fd -------------------- Running test 'readwrite' with 4 tasks Threads 0.18 +/- 0.04 seconds Processes 0.16 +/- 0.01 seconds The benefits are huge (upto ~60%) in some cases on x86 primarily due to the atomic operations during acquisition of ->file_lock and cache line bouncing in fast path. ppc64 benefits are modest due to LL/SC based locking, but still statistically significant. This patch: RCU head initilizer no longer needs the head varible name since we don't use list.h lists anymore. Signed-off-by: NDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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