1. 03 Jan, 2008 2 commits
    • Dave Kleikamp's avatar
      JFS: Make sure special inode data is written after journal is flushed · 67e6682f
      Dave Kleikamp authored
      This patch makes sure that data that we tried to flush before the journal
      was completely written actually gets pushed to disk.
      
      To avoid duplicating code, moved common code to write_special_inodes().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      67e6682f
    • Dave Kleikamp's avatar
      JFS: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for no-write pages · 29a424f2
      Dave Kleikamp authored
      When JFS decides to drop a dirty metapage, it simply clears the META_dirty
      bit and leave alone the PG_dirty and PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY bits.
      
      When such no-write page goes to metapage_writepage(), the `relic'
      PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY tag should be cleared, to prevent pdflush from
      repeatedly trying to sync them.  This is done through
      set_page_writeback(), so call it should be called in all cases.  If
      no I/O is initiated, end_page_writeback() should be called immediately.
      
      This is how __block_write_full_page() does things.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      CC: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
      29a424f2
  2. 02 Jan, 2008 7 commits
  3. 01 Jan, 2008 6 commits
  4. 31 Dec, 2007 2 commits
  5. 30 Dec, 2007 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 · e697789d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
        [SERIAL]: Fix section mismatches in Sun serial console drivers.
      e697789d
    • Dave Young's avatar
      [BLUETOOTH]: put_device before device_del fix · 38b7da09
      Dave Young authored
      Because of workqueue delay, the put_device could be called before
      device_del, so move it to del_conn.
      
      Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> 
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      38b7da09
    • Gavin McCullagh's avatar
      [TCP]: use non-delayed ACK for congestion control RTT · 2072c228
      Gavin McCullagh authored
      When a delayed ACK representing two packets arrives, there are two RTT
      samples available, one for each packet.  The first (in order of seq
      number) will be artificially long due to the delay waiting for the
      second packet, the second will trigger the ACK and so will not itself
      be delayed.
      
      According to rfc1323, the SRTT used for RTO calculation should use the
      first rtt, so receivers echo the timestamp from the first packet in
      the delayed ack.  For congestion control however, it seems measuring
      delayed ack delay is not desirable as it varies independently of
      congestion.
      
      The patch below causes seq_rtt and last_ackt to be updated with any
      available later packet rtts which should have less (and hopefully
      zero) delack delay.  The rtt value then gets passed to
      ca_ops->pkts_acked().
      
      Where TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP was set, effort was made to supress RTTs from
      within a TSO chunk (!fully_acked), using only the final ACK (which
      includes any TSO delay) to generate RTTs.  This patch removes these
      checks so RTTs are passed for each ACK to ca_ops->pkts_acked().
      
      For non-delay based congestion control (cubic, h-tcp), rtt is
      sometimes used for rtt-scaling.  In shortening the RTT, this may make
      them a little less aggressive.  Delay-based schemes (eg vegas, veno,
      illinois) should get a cleaner, more accurate congestion signal,
      particularly for small cwnds.  The congestion control module can
      potentially also filter out bad RTTs due to the delayed ack alarm by
      looking at the associated cnt which (where delayed acking is in use)
      should probably be 1 if the alarm went off or greater if the ACK was
      triggered by a packet.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh@nuim.ie>
      Acked-by: default avatarIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2072c228
  6. 29 Dec, 2007 1 commit
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      [SERIAL]: Fix section mismatches in Sun serial console drivers. · fb445ee5
      David S. Miller authored
      We're exporting an __init function, oops :-)
      
      The core issue here is that add_preferred_console() is marked
      as __init, this makes it impossible to invoke this thing from
      a driver probe routine which is what the Sparc serial drivers
      need to do.
      
      There is no harm in dropping the __init marker.  This code will
      actually work properly when invoked from a modular driver,
      except that init will probably not pick up the console change
      without some other support code.
      
      Then we can drop the __init from sunserial_console_match()
      and we're no longer exporting an __init function to modules.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      fb445ee5
  7. 28 Dec, 2007 7 commits
  8. 27 Dec, 2007 11 commits
  9. 26 Dec, 2007 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 · 11ee2957
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
        cmd64x: fix hwif->chipset setup
        MAINTAINERS: update ide-cd entry
        ide-cd: fix 'ireason' reporting in cdrom_pc_intr()
        ide-cd: fix error message in cdrom_pc_intr()
        ide-cd: add error message for DMA error to cdrom_read_intr()
        ide-cd: fix error messages in cdrom_write_intr()
        ide-cd: add missing 'ireason' masking to cdrom_write_intr()
        ide-cd: fix error messages in cdrom_{read,write}_check_ireason()
        ide-cd: use ide_cd_release() in ide_cd_probe()
        ide-cd: fix ACER/AOpen 24X CDROM speed reporting on big-endian machines
        ide-cd: fix SAMSUNG CD-ROM SCR-3231 quirk
        drivers/ide/: Spelling fixes
      11ee2957