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  1. 24 Nov, 2002 1 commit
  2. 23 Nov, 2002 5 commits
  3. 29 Oct, 2002 1 commit
    • Kai Germaschewski's avatar
      ISDN: Fix the workqueue changes for the HiSax driver · af71c8d4
      Kai Germaschewski authored
      Whoever did the tqueue -> workqueue changes didn't really care to look
      at how it was used in the HiSax driver, making the driver compile but
      oops with NULL pointer derefs.
      
      Oh, and workqueues are really not the right solution here, tasklets are.
      But that's for later.
      af71c8d4
  4. 28 Oct, 2002 1 commit
  5. 01 Oct, 2002 1 commit
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      [PATCH] Workqueue Abstraction · 6ed12ff8
      Ingo Molnar authored
      This is the next iteration of the workqueue abstraction.
      
      The framework includes:
      
       - per-CPU queueing support.
      
      on SMP there is a per-CPU worker thread (bound to its CPU) and per-CPU
      work queues - this feature is completely transparent to workqueue-users.
      keventd automatically uses this feature. XFS can now update to work-queues
      and have the same per-CPU performance as it had with its per-CPU worker
      threads.
      
       - delayed work submission
      
      there's a new queue_delayed_work(wq, work, delay) function and a new
      schedule_delayed_work(work, delay) function. The later one is used to
      correctly fix former tq_timer users. I've reverted those changes in 2.5.40
      that changed tq_timer uses to schedule_work() - eg. in the case of
      random.c or the tty flip queue it was definitely the wrong thing to do.
      
      delayed work means a timer embedded in struct work_struct.  I considered
      using split struct work_struct and delayed_work_struct types, but lots
      of code actively uses task-queues in both delayed and non-delayed mode,
      so i went for the more generic approach that allows both methods of work
      submission.  Delayed timers do not cause any other overhead in the
      normal submission path otherwise.
      
       - multithreaded run_workqueue() implementation
      
      the run_workqueue() function can now be called from multiple contexts, and
      a worker thread will only use up a single entryy - this property is used
      by the flushing code, and can potentially be used in the future to extend
      the number of per-CPU worker threads.
      
       - more reliable flushing
      
      there's now a 'pending work' counter, which is used to accurately detect
      when the last work-function has finished execution. It's also used to
      correctly flush against timed requests. I'm not convinced whether the old
      keventd implementation got this detail right.
      
       - i switched the arguments of the queueing function(s) per Jeff's
         suggestion, it's more straightforward this way.
      
      
      Driver fixes:
      
      i have converted almost every affected driver to the new framework. This
      cleaned up tons of code. I also fixed a number of drivers that were still
      using BHs (these drivers did not compile in 2.5.40).
      
      while this means lots of changes, it might ease the QA decision whether to
      put this patch into 2.5.
      
      The pach converts roughly 80% of all tqueue-using code to workqueues - and
      all the places that are not converted to workqueues yet are places that do
      not compile in vanilla 2.5.40 anyway, due to unrelated changes. I've
      converted a fair number of drivers that do not compile in 2.5.40, and i
      think i've managed to convert every driver that compiles under 2.5.40.
      6ed12ff8
  6. 02 Sep, 2002 1 commit
  7. 06 Jun, 2002 2 commits
  8. 13 Feb, 2002 1 commit
  9. 05 Feb, 2002 6 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      v2.5.2.2 -> v2.5.2.3 · 463727d1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      - Al Viro: VFS inode allocation moved down to filesystem, trim inodes
      - Greg KH: USB update, hotplug documentation
      - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
      - Ingo Molnar: scheduler tweaking ("J2")
      - Arnaldo: emu10k kdev_t updates
      - Ben Collins: firewire updates
      - Björn Wesen: cris arch update
      - Hal Duston: ps2esdi driver bio/kdev_t fixes
      - Jean Tourrilhes: move wireless drivers into drivers/net/wireless,
      update wireless API #1
      - Richard Gooch: devfs race fix
      - OGAWA Hirofumi: FATFS update
      463727d1
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      v2.4.10.1 -> v2.4.10.2 · 5bf3be03
      Linus Torvalds authored
        - me/Al Viro: fix bdget() oops with block device modules that don't
        clean up after they exit
        - Alan Cox: continued merging (drivers, license tags)
        - David Miller: sparc update, network fixes
        - Christoph Hellwig: work around broken drivers that add a gendisk more
        than once
        - Jakub Jelinek: handle more ELF loading special cases
        - Trond Myklebust: NFS client and lockd reclaimer cleanups/fixes
        - Greg KH: USB updates
        - Mikael Pettersson: sparate out local APIC / IO-APIC config options
      5bf3be03
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      v2.4.5.8 -> v2.4.5.9 · 2d80cb2a
      Linus Torvalds authored
        - make sure "sync()" doesn't effectively lock up the machine by
        overloading all the IO resources
        - fix up some network memory allocations that don't wan tto wait on IO.
        - merge with Alan (including MIPS update)
        - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates.
        - Al Viro: System V FS update (write capability, page cache, mondo cleanups)
        - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN cleanups, TURBOPAM driver by Stelian Pop
        - Ben Fennema: UDF update (time handling, i_blocks fix)
        - Neil Brown: md error handling improvements, knfsd file handle compatibility
        - Paul Mackerras: PPC update
        - Jakub Jelinek: fix up kernel linker scripts to accept .rodata better
        - Patrick Mochel: fix PME handling in pci_enable_wake()
        - Chris Mason: reiserfs PF_MEMALLOC handling
      2d80cb2a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      v2.4.2 -> v2.4.2.1 · c37b3aca
      Linus Torvalds authored
        - Chris Mason: reiserfs, another null bytes bug
        - Andrea Arkangeli: make SMP Athlon build
        - Alexander Zarochentcev: reiserfs directory fsync SMP locking fix
        - Jeff Garzik: PCI network driver updates
        - Alan Cox: continue merging
        - Ingo Molnar: fix RAID AUTORUN ioctl, scheduling improvements
      c37b3aca
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      v2.4.1.1 -> v2.4.1.2 · 5d12a58c
      Linus Torvalds authored
        - driver sync up with Alan
        - Andrew Morton: wakeup cleanup and race fix
        - Paul Mackerras: macintosh driver updates.
        - don't trust "page_count()" on reserved pages!
        - Russell King: fix serious IDE multimode write bug!
        - me, Jens, others: fix elevator problem
        - ARM, MIPS and cris architecture updates
        - alpha updates: better page clear/copy, avoid kernel lock in execve
        - USB and firewire updates
        - ISDN updates
        - Irda updates
      5d12a58c
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Import changeset · 7a2deb32
      Linus Torvalds authored
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