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2005-10-30	[PATCH] cpusets: confine pdflush to its cpuset	Paul Jackson
	This patch keeps pdflush daemons on the same cpuset as their parent, the kthread daemon. Some large NUMA configurations put as much as they can of kernel threads and other classic Unix load in what's called a bootcpuset, keeping the rest of the system free for dedicated jobs. This effort is thwarted by pdflush, which dynamically destroys and recreates pdflush daemons depending on load. It's easy enough to force the originally created pdflush deamons into the bootcpuset, at system boottime. But the pdflush threads created later were allowed to run freely across the system, due to the necessary line in their startup kthread(): set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL); By simply coding pdflush to start its threads with the cpus_allowed restrictions of its cpuset (inherited from kthread, its parent) we can ensure that dynamically created pdflush threads are also kept in the bootcpuset. On systems w/o cpusets, or w/o a bootcpuset implementation, the following will have no affect, leaving pdflush to run on any CPU, as before. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25	[PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing	Christoph Lameter
	1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h: frozen(process) Check for frozen process freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator) thaw_process(process) Restart process frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now 2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all kernel sources except sched.h 3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver 4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls. 5. Some whitespace cleanup 6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check PF_FROZEN). This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe! Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!