1. 12 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  2. 07 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 04 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 01 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  5. 26 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages · 2d4dc890
      Ilya Loginov 提交于
      Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
      this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
      the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.
      
      The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
      pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
      flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
      flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
      equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
      
      See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
      on LKML for more information.
      Signed-off-by: NIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
      Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      2d4dc890
  6. 28 10月, 2009 7 次提交
  7. 16 10月, 2009 10 次提交
  8. 14 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Fix hypervisor TLB batching · b6dcde5c
      Anton Blanchard 提交于
      Profiling of a page fault scalability microbenchmark shows flush_hash_range
      is not calling the batch hpte invalidate hcall (H_BULK_REMOVE).
      
      It turns out we have a duplicate firmware feature for hcall-bulk and the
      current setup code stops after finding the first match. This meant we never
      batch and always do individual invalidates.
      
      The patch below removes the duplicate and shifts FW_FEATURE_CMO to close
      the gap. With the patch applied the single threaded page fault rate improves
      from 217169 to 238755 per second on a POWER5 test box, a 10% improvement.
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      b6dcde5c
  9. 13 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      net: Generalize socket rx gap / receive queue overflow cmsg · 3b885787
      Neil Horman 提交于
      Create a new socket level option to report number of queue overflows
      
      Recently I augmented the AF_PACKET protocol to report the number of frames lost
      on the socket receive queue between any two enqueued frames.  This value was
      exported via a SOL_PACKET level cmsg.  AFter I completed that work it was
      requested that this feature be generalized so that any datagram oriented socket
      could make use of this option.  As such I've created this patch, It creates a
      new SOL_SOCKET level option called SO_RXQ_OVFL, which when enabled exports a
      SOL_SOCKET level cmsg that reports the nubmer of times the sk_receive_queue
      overflowed between any two given frames.  It also augments the AF_PACKET
      protocol to take advantage of this new feature (as it previously did not touch
      sk->sk_drops, which this patch uses to record the overflow count).  Tested
      successfully by me.
      
      Notes:
      
      1) Unlike my previous patch, this patch simply records the sk_drops value, which
      is not a number of drops between packets, but rather a total number of drops.
      Deltas must be computed in user space.
      
      2) While this patch currently works with datagram oriented protocols, it will
      also be accepted by non-datagram oriented protocols. I'm not sure if thats
      agreeable to everyone, but my argument in favor of doing so is that, for those
      protocols which aren't applicable to this option, sk_drops will always be zero,
      and reporting no drops on a receive queue that isn't used for those
      non-participating protocols seems reasonable to me.  This also saves us having
      to code in a per-protocol opt in mechanism.
      
      3) This applies cleanly to net-next assuming that commit
      97775007 (my af packet cmsg patch) is reverted
      Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3b885787
  10. 24 9月, 2009 9 次提交
  11. 22 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions · 90f72aa5
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
      will look like anonymous memory to user space.  This is accomplished by
      using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
      MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
      the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.
      
      The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only
      on some architectures but not on others.  Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a
      hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific
      meaning to it.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      90f72aa5
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      perf_event, powerpc: Fix compilation after big perf_counter rename · a8f90e90
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This fixes two places in the powerpc perf_event (perf_counter) code
      where 'list_entry' needs to be changed to 'group_entry', but were
      missed in commit 65abc865 ("perf_counter: Rename list_entry ->
      group_entry, counter_list -> group_list").
      
      This also changes 'event' back to 'counter' in a couple of
      contexts:
      
      * Field and function names that deal with the limited-function
        counters: it's really the hardware counters whose function is
        limited, not the events that they count.  Hence:
      
        MAX_LIMITED_HWEVENTS -> MAX_LIMITED_HWCOUNTERS
        limited_event -> limited_counter
        freeze/thaw_limited_events -> freeze/thaw_limited_counters
      
      * The machine-specific PMU description struct (struct power_pmu): this
        renames 'n_event' back to 'n_counter' since it really describes how
        many hardware counters the machine has.  (Renaming this back avoids
        a compile error in each of the machine-specific PMU back-ends where
        they initialize their power_pmu struct.)
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <19128.4280.813369.589704@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a8f90e90
  12. 21 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      perf: Tidy up after the big rename · 57c0c15b
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
       - provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's
      
       - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects
      
       - small indentation fixups
      
       - fix up MAINTAINERS
      
       - fix small x86 printout fallout
      
       - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register)
      Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      57c0c15b
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      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
      
      In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
      initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
      becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
      monitoring, analysis facility.
      
      Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
      'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
      code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
      less appropriate.
      
      All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
      events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
      and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
      
      The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
      it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
      
      Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
      suggested a rename.
      
      User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
      should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
      keep the size down.)
      
      This patch has been generated via the following script:
      
        FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
          -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
          -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
          -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
          -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
          $FILES
      
        for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
          M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
          mv $N $M
        done
      
        FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
          -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
          -e 's/counter/event/g' \
          -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
          $FILES
      
      ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
      used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
      a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
      change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
      is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
      
      Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
      stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
      
      ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
        with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
        over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
        in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
        better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
        instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
      Suggested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
  13. 16 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      sched: Disable wakeup balancing · 182a85f8
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Sysbench thinks SD_BALANCE_WAKE is too agressive and kbuild doesn't
      really mind too much, SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE picks up most of the
      slack.
      
      On a dual socket, quad core, dual thread nehalem system:
      
      sysbench (--num_threads=16):
      
       SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 13982 tx/s
       SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 15688 tx/s
      
      kbuild (-j16):
      
       SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 47.648295846  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.312% )
       SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 47.608607360  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.026% )
      
      (same within noise)
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      182a85f8
  14. 15 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      sched: Improve latencies and throughput · 0ec9fab3
      Mike Galbraith 提交于
      Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a
      x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser:
      
       NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
       encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
       encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
       encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
      
       NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS
       encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
       encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
       encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
      
       NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
       encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
       encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
       encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
      
      Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx,
      not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where
      there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago.
      
      Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies
      means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions)
      
      This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well.
      Reported-by: NJason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0ec9fab3
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      sched: Tweak wake_idx · 78e7ed53
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      When merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() we lost
      the use of wake_idx, restore that and set them to 0 to make wake
      balancing more aggressive.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      78e7ed53