H-TCP is a congestion control algorithm developed at the Hamilton Institute, by
Douglas Leith and Robert Shorten. It is extending the standard Reno algorithm
with mode switching is thus a relatively simple modification.

H-TCP is defined in a layered manner as it is still a research platform. The
basic form includes the modification of beta according to the ratio of maxRTT
to min RTT and the alpha=2*factor*(1-beta) relation, where factor is dependant
on the time since last congestion.

The other layers improve convergence by adding appropriate factors to alpha.

The following patch implements the H-TCP algorithm in it's basic form.
Signed-Off-By: NBaruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

TCP Vegas code modified for the new TCP infrastructure.  
Vegas now uses microsecond resolution timestamps for 
better estimation of performance over higher speed links.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

TCP Hybla congestion avoidance.

- "In heterogeneous networks, TCP connections that incorporate a
terrestrial or satellite radio link are greatly disadvantaged with
respect to entirely wired connections, because of their longer round
trip times (RTTs). To cope with this problem, a new TCP proposal, the
TCP Hybla, is presented and discussed in the paper[1]. It stems from an
analytical evaluation of the congestion window dynamics in the TCP
standard versions (Tahoe, Reno, NewReno), which suggests the necessary
modifications to remove the performance dependence on RTT.[...]"[1]

[1]: Carlo Caini, Rosario Firrincieli, "TCP Hybla: a TCP enhancement for
heterogeneous networks",
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 547 - 566. September 2004.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera (root at danielinux.net)net
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Sally Floyd's high speed TCP congestion control.
This is useful for comparison and research.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is the existing 2.6.12 Westwood code moved from tcp_input
to the new congestion framework. A lot of the inline functions
have been eliminated to try and make it clearer.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

TCP BIC congestion control reworked to use the new congestion control 
infrastructure. This version is more up to date than the BIC
code in 2.6.12; it incorporates enhancements from BICTCP 1.1, 
to handle low latency links.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Update the documentation to remove the old sysctl values and
include the new congestion control infrastructure. Includes
changes to tcp.txt by Ian McDonald.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Enhancement to the tcp_diag interface used by the iproute2 ss command
to report the tcp congestion control being used by a socket.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Allow TCP to have multiple pluggable congestion control algorithms.
Algorithms are defined by a set of operations and can be built in
or modules.  The legacy "new RENO" algorithm is used as a starting
point and fallback.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This makes the USB_MON less confusing.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Clean up tortured logic in sys_open().
Signed-off-by: NTelemaque Ndizihiwe <telendiz@eircom.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

tty_register_ldisc(N_FOO, NULL) => tty_unregister_ldisc(N_FOO)
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

It's a bit strange to see tty_register_ldisc call in modules' exit
functions.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

drivers/usb/media/pwc/pwc-uncompress.c: In function `pwc_decompress':
drivers/usb/media/pwc/pwc-uncompress.c:140: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The current ide-cd driver reports the CDROM speed (as found in
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info) as the current speed when loading the driver.
Changing the speed of the cdrom drive (by "eject -x" for instance) doesn't
update the speed reported by the kernel.  Updating the info could be
valuable for the user as it's the only way to know if the drive accepted
the request or discarded it.  It could even be used to list all the
available speeds of the drive.

The attached patch modifies the ide-cd driver so that after every speed
change request the new speed is updated.  Please note that the actual
modification is very little but I had to touch quite a few lines in order
to avoid to pre-declare the sub-functions.
Signed-off-by: NEric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add note about the soon-to-come removal of verify_area() to
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

In the upcoming aio_down patch, it is useful to store a private data
pointer in the kiocb's wait_queue.  Since we provide our own wake up
function and do not require the task_struct pointer, it makes sense to
convert the task pointer into a generic private pointer.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

When do_sync_(read|write) encounters an aio method that makes use of the
retry mechanism, they fail to correctly retry the operation.  This fixes
that by adding the appropriate sleep and retry mechanism.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The driver plays with waitqueue internals and fails to compile after Ben's
"aio: make wait_queue ->task ->private" patch.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

fs/buffer.c::__block_prepare_write() has broken error recovery.  It calls
the get_block() callback with "create = 1" and if that succeeds it
immediately clears buffer_new on the just allocated buffer (which has
buffer_new set).

The bug is that if an error occurs and get_block() returns != 0, we break
from this loop and go into recovery code.  This code has this comment:

/* Error case: */
/*
 * Zero out any newly allocated blocks to avoid exposing stale
 * data.  If BH_New is set, we know that the block was newly
 * allocated in the above loop.
 */

So the intent is obviously good in that it wants to clear just allocated
and hence not zeroed buffers.  However the code recognises allocated
buffers by checking for buffer_new being set.

Unfortunately __block_prepare_write() as discussed above already cleared
buffer_new on all allocated buffers thus no buffers will be cleared during
error recovery and old data will be leaked.

The simplest way I can see to fix this is to make the current recovery code
work by _not_ clearing buffer_new after calling get_block() in
__block_prepare_write().

We cannot safely allow buffer_new buffers to "leak out" of
__block_prepare_write(), thus we simply do a quick loop over the buffers
clearing buffer_new on each of them if it is set just before returning
"success" from __block_prepare_write().
Signed-off-by: NAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This file duplicates <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>, using slightly different
names.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Kconfig is spitting out massive numbers of errors and so on.  This patch
switches arch/sparc/Kconfig to use drivers/Kconfig so those stop.
Signed-off-by: NWilliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The following patch removes the f_error field and all checks of f_error.

Trond said:

  f_error was introduced for NFS, and made sense when we were guaranteed
  always to have a file pointer around when write errors occurred.  Since
  then, we have (for various reasons) had to introduce the nfs_open_context in
  order to track the file read/write state, and it made sense to move our
  f_error tracking there too.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Acked-by: NTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The HCDP specs (i.e., PCDP revision < 3) allow zero as a default value for
baud rate and data bits.  So if firmware doesn't supply them, let
early_serial_console_init() probe for them rather than telling it the baud
rate is zero.

Also, update the URL for the PCDP spec.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch allows block device drivers to convert their ioctl functions to
unlocked_ioctl() like character devices and other subsystems.  All
functions that were called with the BKL held before are still used that
way, but I would not be surprised if it could be removed from the ioctl
functions in drivers/block/ioctl.c themselves.

As a side note, I found that compat_blkdev_ioctl() acquires the BKL as
well, which looks like a bug.  I have checked that every user of
disk->fops->compat_ioctl() in the current git tree gets the BKL itself, so
it could easily be removed from compat_blkdev_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch is based on work by Carlos O'Donell and Matthew Wilcox.  It
introduces/updates the compat_time_t type and uses it for compat siginfo
structures.  I have built this on ppc64 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- make boot-up card recognition more reliable (ie.  redo interrogation
  always if there is no valid 'card inserted' state) (and yes, i saw it
  happening on an o2micro controller that both CB_CBARD and CB_16BITCARD
  bits were set at the same time)

- also redo interrogation before probing the ISA interrupts.  it's safer
  to do the probing with the socket in a clean state.

- make card insert detect more reliable.  yenta_get_status() now returns
  SS_PENDING as long as the card is not completley inserted and one of the
  voltage bits is set.  also !CB_CBARD doesn't mean CB_16BITCARD.  there is
  CB_NOTACARD as well, so make an explicit check for CB_16BITCARD.

- for TI bridges: disable IRQs during power-on.  in all-serial and tied
  interrupt mode the interrupts are always disabled for single-slot
  controllers.  for two-slot contollers the disabling is only done when the
  other slot is empty.  to force disabling there is a new module parameter
  now: pwr_irqs_off=Y (which is a regression for working setups.  that's
  why it's an option, only use when required)

- modparm to disable ISA interrupt probing (isa_probe, defaults to on)

- remove unneeded code/cleanups (ie.  merge yenta_events() into
  yenta_interrupts())
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

include/asm/offset.h is a generated file on x86_64 and mips.  Let's add it
to Documentation/dontdiff.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

A pointer is dereferenced before it is null-checked.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

gconfig: only show scrollbars if needed (which is more user friendly):
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Patrick noticed that the initial scan of the semaphore operations logs
decrease and increase operations seperately, but then both cases are or'ed
together and decrease is never used.  The attached patch removes the
decrease parameter - it shrinks sys_semtimedop() by 56 bytes.
Signed-Of-By: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Frame pointers are supposed to enable debuggers to reliably tell where a
call comes from.  That is defeated by GCC's sibling call optimization (aka
tail recursion elimination).

This patch turns this optimization off when compiling with frame pointers.
Signed-Off-By: NMatthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Avoid taking the tasklist_lock in sys_times if the process is single
threaded.  In a NUMA system taking the tasklist_lock may cause a bouncing
cacheline if multiple independent processes continually call sys_times to
measure their performance.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: NShai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch gets rid of some macro obfuscation from fs/eventpoll.c by
removing slab allocator wrappers and converting macros to static inline
functions.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch improves write performance for the CD/DVD packet writing driver.
 The logic for switching between reading and writing has been changed so
that streaming writes are no longer interrupted by read requests.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch consolidates sys_fsync and sys_fdatasync.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>