From: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>

Another optimization patch from Jack Steiner, intended to reduce TLB
flushes during process migration.

Most architextures should define tlb_migrate_prepare() to be flush_tlb_mm(),
but on i386, it would be a wasted flush, because i386 disconnects previous
cpus from the tlb flush automatically.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

This patch removes the per runqueue array of NR_CPU arrays.  Each time we
want to check a remote CPU's load we check nr_running as well anyway, so
introduce a cpu_load which is the load of the local runqueue and is kept
updated in the timer tick.  Put them in the same cacheline.

This has additional benefits of having the cpu_load consistent across all
CPUs and more up to date.  It is sampled better too, being updated once per
timer tick.

This shouldn't make much difference in scheduling behaviour, but all
benchmarks are either as good or better on the 16-way NUMAQ: hackbench,
reaim, volanomark are about the same, tbench and dbench are maybe a bit
better.  kernbench is about one percent better.

John reckons it isn't a big deal, but it does save 4K per CPU or 2MB total
on his big systems, so I figure it must be a bit kinder on the caches.  I
think it is just nicer in general anyway.

From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>

This patch provides full per-package priority support for SMT processors
(aka pentium4 hyperthreading) when combined with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT.

It maintains cpu percentage distribution within each physical cpu package
by limiting the time a lower priority task can run on a sibling cpu
concurrently with a higher priority task.

It introduces a new flag into the scheduler domain
unsigned int per_cpu_gain;	/* CPU % gained by adding domain cpus */

This is empirically set to 15% for pentium4 at the moment and can be
modified to support different values dynamically as newer processors come
out with improved SMT performance.  It should not matter how many siblings
there are.

How it works is it compares tasks running on sibling cpus and when a lower
static priority task is running it will delay it till
high_priority_timeslice * (100 - per_cpu_gain) / 100 <= low_prio_timeslice

eg.  a nice 19 task timeslice is 10ms and nice 0 timeslice is 102ms On
vanilla the nice 0 task runs on one logical cpu while the nice 19 task runs
unabated on the other logical cpu.  With smtnice the nice 0 runs on one
logical cpu for 102ms and the nice 19 sleeps till the nice 0 task has 12ms
remaining and then will schedule.

Real time tasks and kernel threads are not altered by this code, and kernel
threads do not delay lower priority user tasks.

with lots of thanks to Zwane Mwaikambo and Nick Piggin for help with the
coding of this version.

If this is merged, it is probably best to delay pushing this upstream in
mainline till sched_domains gets tested for at least one major release.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

This changes sched domains to contain all possible CPUs, and check for
online as needed.  It's in order to play nicely with CPU hotplug.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

The following patch implements a cpu_power member to struct sched_group.

This allows special casing to be removed for SMT groups in the balancing
code.  It does not take CPU hotplug into account yet, but that shouldn't be
too hard.

I have tested it on the NUMAQ by pretending it has SMT.  Works as expected.
Active balances across nodes.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
      Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

The current sched_balance_exec() sets the task's cpus_allowed mask
temporarily to move it to a different CPU.  This has several issues,
including the fact that a task will see its affinity at a bogus value.

So we change the migration_req_t to explicitly specify a destination CPU,
rather than the migration thread deriving it from cpus_allowed.  If the
requested CPU is no longer valid (racing with another set_cpus_allowed,
say), it can be ignored: if the task is not allowed on this CPU, there will
be another migration request pending.

This change allows sched_balance_exec() to tell the migration thread what
to do without changing the cpus_allowed mask.

So we rename __set_cpus_allowed() to move_task(), as the cpus_allowed mask
is now set by the caller.  And move_task_away(), which the migration thread
uses to actually perform the move, is renamed __move_task().

I also ignore offline CPUs in sched_best_cpu(), so sched_migrate_task()
doesn't need to check for offline CPUs.

Ulterior motive: this approach also plays well with CPU Hotplug.
Previously that patch might have seen a task with cpus_allowed only
containing the dying CPU (temporarily due to sched_balance_exec) and
forcibly reset it to all cpus, which might be wrong.  The other approach is
to hold the cpucontrol sem around sched_balance_exec(), which is too much
of a bottleneck.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

John Hawkes discribed this problem to me:

There *is* a small problem in this area, though, that SuSE avoids.
"jiffies" gets updated by cpu0.  The other CPUs may, over time, get out of
sync (and they're initialized on ia64 to start out being out of sync), so
it's no guarantee that every CPU will wake up from its timer interrupt and
see a "jiffies" value that is guaranteed to be last_jiffies+1.  Sometimes
the jiffies value may be unchanged since the last wakeup.  Sometimes the
jiffies value may have incremented by 2 (or more, especially if cpu0's
interrupts are disabled for long stretches of time).  So an algoithm that
says, "I'll call load_balance() only when jiffies is *exactly* N" is going
to fail on occasion, either by calling load_balance() too often or not
often enough.  ***

I fixed this by adding a last_balance field to struct sched_domain, and
working off that.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

The following patch builds a scheduling description for the i386
architecture using cpu_sibling_map to set up SMT if CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is
set.

It could be made more fancy and collapse degenerate domains at runtime (ie.
1 sibling per CPU, or 1 NUMA node in the computer).


From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>

   This fixes an oops due to cpu_sibling_map being uninitialised when a
   system with no MP table (most UP boxen) boots a CONFIG_SMT kernel.  What
   also happens is that the cpu_group lists end up not being terminated
   properly, but this oops kills it first.  Patch tested on UP w/o MP table,
   2x P2 and UP Xeon w/ no siblings.

From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
      Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

   Change arch_init_sched_domains to use cpu_online_map

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

   Fix build with NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

This is a (somewhat) trivial patch which converts cpu_sibling_map from an
array of CPUs to an array of cpumasks.  Needed for >2 siblings per package,
but it actually can simplify code as it allows the cpu_sibling_map to be
set up even when there is 1 sibling per package.  Intel want this, I use it
in the next patch to build scheduling domains for the P4 HT.

From: Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de>

   Build fix

From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>

   Fix to handle more than 2 siblings per package.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

This patch gets the sched_domain scheduler working better WRT balancing.
Its been tested on the NUMAQ.  Among other things it changes to the way SMT
load calculation works so as not to active load blances when it shouldn't.

It still has a problem with SMT and NUMA: it will put a task on each
sibling in a node before moving tasks to another node.  It should probably
start moving tasks after each *physical* CPU is filled.

To fix, you need "how much CPU power in this domain?" At the moment we
approximate # runqueues == CPU power, and hack around it at the CPU
physical domain by counting all sibling runqueues as 1.

It isn't hard to correctly work the CPU power out, but once CPU hotplug is
in the equation it becomes much more hotplug events.  If anyone is actually
interested in getting this fixed, that is.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

Anton was attempting to make a sched domain topology for his POWER5 and was
having some trouble.

This patch only includes code which is ifdefed out, but hopefully it will
be of some use to implementors.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

This is the core sched domains patch.  It can handle any number of levels
in a scheduling heirachy, and allows architectures to easily customize how
the scheduler behaves.  It also provides progressive balancing backoff
needed by SGI on their large systems (although they have not yet tested
it).

It is built on top of (well, uses ideas from) my previous SMP/NUMA work, and
gets results very similar to them when using the default scheduling
description.

Benchmarks
==========

Martin was seeing I think 10-20% better system times in kernbench on the 32
way.  I was seeing improvements in dbench, tbench, kernbench, reaim,
hackbench on a 16-way NUMAQ.  Hackbench in fact had a non linear element
which is all but eliminated.  Large improvements in volanomark.

Cross node task migration was decreased in all above benchmarks, sometimes by
a factor of 100!!  Cross CPU migration was also generally decreased.  See
this post:
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=a406c910b30cbac4&seekm=UAdQ.3hj.5%40gated-at.bofh.it#link2

Results on a hyperthreading P4 are equivalent to Ingo's shared runqueues
patch (which is a big improvement).

Some examples on the 16-way NUMAQ (this is slightly older sched domain code):

 http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w26/hbench.png
 http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w26/vmark.html

From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>

   Tiny patch to make -mm3 compile on an NUMA box with NR_CPUS >
   BITS_PER_LONG.

From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>

   Fix a minor nit with the find_busiest_group code.  No functional change,
   but makes the code simpler and clearer.  This patch does two things ... 
   adds some more expansive comments, and removes this if clause:

      if (*imbalance < SCHED_LOAD_SCALE
                      && max_load - this_load > SCHED_LOAD_SCALE)
		*imbalance = SCHED_LOAD_SCALE;

   If we remove the scaling factor, we're basically conditionally doing:

	if (*imbalance < 1)
		*imbalance = 1;

   Which is pointless, as the very next thing we do is to remove the
   scaling factor, rounding up to the nearest integer as we do:

	*imbalance = (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE - 1) >> SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT;

   Thus the if statement is redundant, and only makes the code harder to
   read ;-)

From: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>

   In find_busiest_group(), after we exit the do/while, we select our
   imbalance.  But max_load, avg_load, and this_load are all unsigned, so
   min(x,y) will make a bad choice if max_load < avg_load < this_load (that
   is, a choice between two negative [very large] numbers).

   Unfortunately, there is a bug when max_load never gets changed from zero
   (look in the loop and think what happens if the only load on the machine is
   being created by cpu groups of which we are a member).  And you have a
   recipe for some really bogus values for imbalance.

   Even if you fix the max_load == 0 bug, there will still be times when
   avg_load - this_load will be negative (thus very large) and you'll make the
   decision to move stuff when you shouldn't have.

   This patch allows for this_load to set max_load, which if I understand
   the logic properly is correct.  With this patch applied, the algorithm is
   *much* more conservative ...  maybe *too* conservative but that's for
   another round of testing ...

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

   sched-find-busiest-fix

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

From: Frank Cornelis <frank.cornelis@elis.ugent.be>

In order to get the best possible resolution we need to use NR_CPUS instead
of the constant value 10.  load is an int, so no need to worry about
overflows...

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:

It removes the last place where we mess with run_list open coded.

This should help some laptops where the generic PCI
code might otherwise believe that this range is unused.
The ACPI IO range is usually not visible as a standard
BAR.

Various people hit this in earlier kernels. The x86-64 kernel did not compile 
without CONFIG_IOMMU_GART in various configurations. Just add the missing symbol 
and export it. Also export iommu_merge while I am at it.

This fixes a bug in the new machine check handler on x86-64.

One nasty part was that when you got an MCE during boot up
then it would not always print it on the screen, but still
panic because it attempted to kill the idle task.

This patch does:
 - Always use KERN_EMERG when printing MCEs
 - Always panic and print on screen before killing idle loop
   or init.

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux

into flint.arm.linux.org.uk:/usr/src/bk/linux-2.6-rmk

Patch from Marc Singer

Documentation for the Sharp-LH machines.

Patch from Marc Singer

Include files for this updated lh7a40x patch set.  The changes in this
set from the previous are mostly cosmetic.  The memory macros were
reworked in order to be more similar to the other ARM versions.  The
previous versions produced the same results, but the forms are
slightly different.

Patch from Marc Singer

Updated change set for the 2.6.5 kernel *and* for the April 8th arm
patch.  Also included are changes suggested by Russell that merge
several of the files in the mach- directory.  I have also endeavored
to remove all unnecessary whitespace additions.

Note that since I've found the cause of an annoying user-space crash,
I believe that this patch is OK.  The crash appears to have nothing to
do with the system setup.

Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch syncs the mainline kernel with the linux-omap tree. The
patch contains following updates:
- Move virtual IO area to 0xfefb0000 from 0xfffb0000 to fix parts of
  IO area  overlapping with ARM Linux reserved memory area
- Add support to OMAP-730, OMAP-5912, and OMAP-1710 processors
- Reorganize board support
- Add OMAP core detection
This patch requires ARM Linux patch 1844/1 be applied to compile
OMAP-730 and OMAP-5912

Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch syncs the mainline kernel with the linux-omap tree. The
patch contains following updates:
- Move virtual IO area to 0xfefb0000 from 0xfffb0000 to fix parts of
  IO area overlapping with ARM Linux reserved memory area
- Add support to OMAP-730, OMAP-5912, and OMAP-1710 processors
- Reorganize board support
- Add OMAP core detection
This patch requires ARM Linux patch 1844/1 be applied to compile
OMAP-730 and OMAP-5912

Patch from Tony Lindgren

Adds OMAP-730 and OMAP-5910 support

   On IDI module cleanup, the freed card must be removed from list.  
   Use list_empty() instead of list_for_each() loop. Thanks Linus.

We don't bother aligining them on a cacheline boundary, since
that is totally excessive in some configurations (especially
P4's with 128-byte cachelines).

Instead, we make the minimum inline string size a bit longer,
and re-order a few fields that allow for better packing on
64-bit architectures, for better memory utilization.

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux

I moved this a little too late - we need to run populate_rootfs() before
running initcalls because some driver initcalls need to open files for
firmware.

The populate_rootfs() call is still coming after init_idle(), so it won't
knock the scheduler over.

This is a version of Binary Increase Control (BIC) TCP
developed by NCSU.   It is yet another TCP congestion control
algorithm for handling big fat pipes. For normal size congestion
windows it behaves the same as existing TCP Reno, but when window
is large it uses additive increase to ensure fairness and when
window is small it uses binary search increase.

For more details see the BIC TCP web page
 http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/

The original code was for web100 (2.4); this version is pretty
much the same but targeted for 2.6 with less sysctl parameters 
and more constants.

I don't have a real high speed long haul network to test, but
when running over 1G links with delays, the performance is more stable
(ie tests are repeatable) and as fast as existing Reno.

Avoid the use of sizeof() and pointer arithmetic to get to the end
of sctp_cookie structure. Instead use the last element peer_init which
is a zero-sized array as the offset.

The purpose of this is to allow sockets created by the kernel in this way
to be passed through the LSM socket creation hooks and be labeled and
mediated in the same manner as other sockets.

This patches addresses a class of potential issues with LSMs, where such
sockets will not be labeled correctly (if at all), or mediated during
creation.  Under SELinux, it fixes a specific bug where RPC sockets
created by the kernel during TCP NFS serving are unlabeled.

Under SELinux, and potentially other LSMs, we need to be able to
distinguish between user sockets and kernel sockets.  For SELinux
specifically, kernel sockets need to be specially labeled during creation,
then bypass access control checks (they are controlled by the kernel
itself and not subject to SELinux mediation).

This addresses a class of potential issues in SELinux where, for example, 
a TCP NFS session times out, then the kernel re-establishes an RPC 
connection upon further user activity.  We do not want such kernel 
created sockets to be labeled with user security contexts.

sock_create() and sock_create_kern() are wrapper functions, which seems 
semantically clearer to me than e.g. adding a flag to sock_create().  If 
you prefer the latter, then let me know.

The patch also adds an argument to the LSM socket creation functions
indicating whether the socket being created is a kernel socket or not.

into nuts.davemloft.net:/disk1/BK/net-2.6