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2006-09-05[GFS2] Add a comment in ops_export.cSteven Whitehouse
Ass a comment explaining the slightly odd construct used to pass error values back. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] More style fixesSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's follow up emails, here are a few small fixes which were missed earlier. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Remove unused code from quotaSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's request, some unused code is removed and some consts added in the quota code. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Style changes in logging codeSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's comments, removed some unused code and removed some brackets which were not required. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Extended attribute code style changesSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's request and also a few of my own. It has been possible to add a few most const to the code as a result of the change in gfs2_ea_name2type. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Style changes in rgrp.cSteven Whitehouse
Change one constant plus remove a redundant !!. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Fix end of multi-line structuresSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's request, I've added a ',' to the end of each of the multi-line structures which didn't already have one (most already did). Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Make headers compile on their ownSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's comments, this should make all the headers compile on their own by including and/or declaring structures early. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Directory code style changesSteven Whitehouse
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt, remove redundant casts, redundant endian conversions, add a smattering of const and rewrite the dirent_next function in order to avoid as many casts as possible. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Some further style changesSteven Whitehouse
Introduce a couple of new constants which make the NFS filehandle sizes that GFS2 uses a bit clearer. Also fix one or two minor issues as per Jan Engelhardt's sixth email. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] More code style updatesSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's fifth email. This has most of the changes recommended, which is the removal of casts which are not required, some indenting fixes and similar. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Style changes in ops_address.cSteven Whitehouse
As per the remainder of Jan Engelhardt's fourth email comments, remove an cast thats not required. Also tidy up the "limit" code in stuck_releasepage(). Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Spelling sentinal -> sentinelSteven Whitehouse
A spelling mistake (one of mine). Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Use const in endian conversion routinesSteven Whitehouse
Use const in endian conversion and printing of on-disk structures. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] More style changesSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's fourth email, this is the first part of the change set with a few minor style points. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Remove a cast, tidy gfs2_inode_attr_inSteven Whitehouse
The remains of the changes for Jan Engelhardt's third email. Remove a cast and tidy up gfs2_inode_attr_in. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Change all types to uX styleSteven Whitehouse
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Align all labels against LH sideSteven Whitehouse
This makes everything consistent. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Tidy up bmap/inode codeSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's third set of comments, this make various code style changes and moves the structures from format.h into super.c, which was the only place that format.h was actually used. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04Merge branch 'master' into gfs2Steven Whitehouse
2006-09-04[GFS2] Tidy up locking codeSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's second email, this removes some unused code, and fixes up indenting in various places. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-03Linux 2.6.18-rc6v2.6.18-rc6Linus Torvalds
2006-09-03[PATCH] powerpc: Fix typo in powermac platform functionsBenjamin Herrenschmidt
New sparse caught that typo which could have caused erratic hardware behaviour on some machines if the platform functions are used by the firmware to change bits in some FCR registers. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-02Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] 8250: constify some serial structs [SERIAL] Make uart_match_port() work with all memory mapped UARTs
2006-09-02Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches [ARM] 3765/1: S3C24XX: cleanup include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/dma.h [ARM] 3764/1: S3C24XX: change type naming to kernel style [ARM] 3763/1: add both rtcs to csb337 defconfig [ARM] Fix ARM __raw_read_trylock() implementation [ARM] 3750/3: Fix double VFP emulation for EABI kernels
2006-09-02[PATCH] eligible_child: remove an obsolete ->tgid checkOleg Nesterov
It is not possible to find a sub-thread in ->children/->ptrace_children lists, ptrace_attach() does not allow to attach to sub-threads. Even if it was possible to ptrace the task from the same thread group, we can't allow to release ->group_leader while there are others (ptracer) threads in the same group. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-02[ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing ↵George G. Davis
Harvard caches Patch from George G. Davis Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page() while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far too heavy on non-v6 CPUs". NOTES: 1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page(). 2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page". 3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page". However flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT non-aliasing case. So memory is consistent between kernel and user space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this range. IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before memcpy(). 4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable. We don't need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page() case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same process above if we access "page" again. The flush_ptrace_access() function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-01Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: uhci-hcd: fix list access bug USB: Support for ELECOM LD-USB20 in pegasus USB: Add VIA quirk fixup for VT8235 usb2 USB: rtl8150_disconnect() needs tasklet_kill() USB Storage: unusual_devs.h for Sony Ericsson M600i USB Storage: Remove the finecam3 unusual_devs entry UHCI: don't stop at an Iso error usb gadget: g_ether spinlock recursion fix USB: add all wacom device to hid-core.c blacklist hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist USB floppy drive SAMSUNG SFD-321U/EP detected 8 times
2006-09-01[PATCH] backlight last round of fixesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Fix some more problems (inverted use of semaphores in some places). He also moved my checks into within the protected section which is better. Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] manage-jbd-its-own-slab fixBadari Pulavarty
Missed a place where I forgot to convert kfree() to kmem_cache_free() as part of jbd-manage-its-own-slab changes. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] fix NUMA interleaving for huge pagesNishanth Aravamudan
Since vma->vm_pgoff is in units of smallpages, VMAs for huge pages have the lower HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT bits always cleared, which results in badd offsets to the interleave functions. Take this difference from small pages into account when calculating the offset. This does add a 0-bit shift into the small-page path (via alloc_page_vma()), but I think that is negligible. Also add a BUG_ON to prevent the offset from growing due to a negative right-shift, which probably shouldn't be allowed anyways. Tested on an 8-memory node ppc64 NUMA box and got the interleaving I expected. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] sgiioc4: fixup use of mmio opsJohn Keller
Fix some bugs in the patch that converted the IOC4 driver from port IO ops to memio ops. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114895892231438&w=2 Problems fixed are: - Call to default_hwif_mmiops() was not being done until _after_ first IO operation, resulting in the first IO operation being done as a port IO op, instead of memio. - request_region() calls needed to be request_mem_region() - Incomplete error case handling. - Non-usage of ioremap() and __iomem. Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] ALSA: ac97: correct some Mic mixer elementsTakashi Iwai
Revert the mixer element names of some Mic controls to the state of 2.6.17. This should fix the name mismatch in alsactl. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] powerpc: Fix PowerMac IRQ handling bugBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The port to genirq & the new powerpc interrupt model in 2.6.18 introduced a bug in the legacy PowerMac PIC code (used on older machines) because of a typo potentially causing hangs due to interrupt storms. This fixes it, along with a performance issue causing us to do spurrious retriggers after masking an interrupt. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] powerpc: More via-pmu backlight fixesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The via-pmu backlight code (introduced in 2.6.18) has various design issues causing crashes on machines using it like the old Wallstreet powerbook (Michael, the author, never managed to test on these and I just got my hand on one of those old beasts). This fixes them by no longer trying to hijack the backlight device of the frontmost framebuffer (causing that framebuffer to crash) but having it's own local bits instead. Might look weird but it's better that way on those old machines, at least as a last-minute fix for 2.6.18. We might rework the whole thing later. This patch also changes the way it gets notified of sleep and wakeup in order to properly shut the backlight down on sleep and bring it back on wakeup. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] dm: work around mempool_alloc, bio_alloc_bioset deadlocksPavel Mironchik
This patch works around a complex dm-related deadlock/livelock down in the mempool allocator. Alasdair said: Several dm targets suffer from this. Mempools are not yet used correctly everywhere in device-mapper: they can get shared when devices are stacked, and some targets share them across multiple instances. I made fixing this one of the prerequisites for this patch: md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch which in some cases makes people more likely to hit the problem. There's been some progress on this recently with (unfinished) dm-crypt patches at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/ (dm-crypt-move-io-to-workqueue.patch plus dependencies) and: I've no problems with a temporary workaround like that, but Milan Broz (a new Redhat developer in the Czech Republic) has started reviewing all the mempool usage in device-mapper so I'm expecting we'll soon have a proper fix for this associated problems. [He's back from holiday at the start of next week.] For now, this sad-but-safe little patch will allow the machine to recover. [akpm@osdl.org: rewrote changelog] Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 2nd roundAdrian Bunk
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. A rationale of the patch is in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] IPMI: fix occasional oops on module unloadCorey Minyard
Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI driver would occasionally result in Oopses. He tracked that down to a variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations. This patch initializes that variable. Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do that. Thanks Olaf! Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] kerneldoc for handle_bad_irq()Henrik Kretzschmar
Adds the description of the parameters from handle_bad_irq(). Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] SBC8360: module_param() permission fixesIan E. Morgan
The last argument of module_param is permissions, not default value. Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] exit early in floppy_init when no floppy existsOlaf Hering
modprobe -v floppy on a Apple G5 writes incorrect stuff to dmesg: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M The reason is that the legacy io check happens very late, when part of the floppy stuff is already initialized. check_legacy_ioport() returns either -ENODEV right away, or it walks the device-tree looking for a floppy node. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] x86: increase MAX_MP_BUSSES on default archAndrew Morton
Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> reports that an HP DL380 g4 fails using the default arch due to the ISA bus having an ID of 32. It would have worked OK with the generic arch - for some reason the default arch doesn't support as many busses. So bump that up to support 256 busses, but leave it at 32 if we're building a tiny system to save a bit of memory. Cc: Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] xtensa: ptrace: EXIT_ZOMBIE fixBill Huey (hui
We're testing the wrong task_struct field. Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] task delay accounting fixesShailabh Nagar
Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting. This solves two problems reported for delay accounting: 1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats. The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when task_struct itself is freed up. As a result, it also eliminates the use of tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting. 2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was missing earlier. The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface (which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc interface causing the oops above). Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] Fix faulty HPET clocksource usage (fix for bug #7062)john stultz
Apparently some systems export valid HPET addresses, but hpet_enable() fails. Then when the HPET clocksource starts up, it only checks for a valid HPET address, and the result is a system where time does not advance. See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7062 for details. This patch just makes sure we better check that the HPET is functional before registering the HPET clocksource. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] synclink_gt: fix receive tty error handlingPaul Fulghum
Fix receive tty error handling in synclink_gt driver. Adrian reported compiler warning for incorrect bit test against char variable. I determined these and other device specific error bits were incorrectly defined. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] md: Fix issues with referencing rdev in md/raid1NeilBrown
We need to be careful when referencing mirrors[i].rdev. It can disappear under us at various times. So: fix a couple of problem places. comment a couple of non-problem places move an 'atomic_add' which deferences rdev down a little way to some where where it is sure to not be NULL. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] ZVC: Scale thresholds depending on the size of the systemChristoph Lameter
The ZVC counter update threshold is currently set to a fixed value of 32. This patch sets up the threshold depending on the number of processors and the sizes of the zones in the system. With the current threshold of 32, I was able to observe slight contention when more than 130-140 processors concurrently updated the counters. The contention vanished when I either increased the threshold to 64 or used Andrew's idea of overstepping the interval (see ZVC overstep patch). However, we saw contention again at 220-230 processors. So we need higher values for larger systems. But the current default is already a bit of an overkill for smaller systems. Some systems have tiny zones where precision matters. For example i386 and x86_64 have 16M DMA zones and either 900M ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA32. These are even present on SMP and NUMA systems. The patch here sets up a threshold based on the number of processors in the system and the size of the zone that these counters are used for. The threshold should grow logarithmically, so we use fls() as an easy approximation. Results of tests on a system with 1024 processors (4TB RAM) The following output is from a test allocating 1GB of memory concurrently on each processor (Forking the process. So contention on mmap_sem and the pte locks is not a factor): X MIN TYPE: CPUS WALL WALL SYS USER TOTCPU fork 1 0.552 0.552 0.540 0.012 0.552 fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.036 2.200 fork 16 0.564 0.548 8.812 0.164 8.976 fork 128 0.580 0.572 72.204 1.208 73.412 fork 256 1.300 0.660 310.400 2.160 312.560 fork 512 3.512 0.696 1526.836 4.816 1531.652 fork 1020 20.024 0.700 17243.176 6.688 17249.863 So a threshold of 32 is fine up to 128 processors. At 256 processors contention becomes a factor. Overstepping the counter (earlier patch) improves the numbers a bit: fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.040 2.204 fork 16 0.552 0.548 8.640 0.148 8.788 fork 128 0.556 0.548 69.676 0.956 70.632 fork 256 0.876 0.636 212.468 2.108 214.576 fork 512 2.276 0.672 997.324 4.260 1001.584 fork 1020 13.564 0.680 11586.436 6.088 11592.523 Still contention at 512 and 1020. Contention at 1020 is down by a third. 256 still has a slight bit of contention. After this patch the counter threshold will be set to 125 which reduces contention significantly: fork 128 0.560 0.548 69.776 0.932 70.708 fork 256 0.636 0.556 143.460 2.036 145.496 fork 512 0.640 0.548 284.244 4.236 288.480 fork 1020 1.500 0.588 1326.152 8.892 1335.044 [akpm@osdl.org: !SMP build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] ZVC: Overstep countersChristoph Lameter
Increments and decrements are usually grouped rather than mixed. We can optimize the inc and dec functions for that case. Increment and decrement the counters by 50% more than the threshold in those cases and set the differential accordingly. This decreases the need to update the atomic counters. The idea came originally from Andrew Morton. The overstepping alone was sufficient to address the contention issue found when updating the global and the per zone counters from 160 processors. Also remove some code in dec_zone_page_state. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[GFS2] Update copyright, tidy up incore.hSteven Whitehouse
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than "v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure declarations which are not required. The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess conversions are done as required at various points and thus the conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h and removed the unused lvb.[ch]. I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the struct gfs2_holder. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>