Hack bench regression with CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL disabled (info only) (no...
Hi, While testing hackbench with 3.11-rc1 I observed hackbench testcase took too long to complete (32 vcpu kvm guest on 32 core HT off machine). hackbench 1x degraded by 3 time (40sec vs 112sec)...
View Article[PATCH] xfs: introduce object readahead to log recovery (no replies)
From: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> It can take a long time to run log recovery operation because it is single threaded and is bound by read latency. We can find that it took most of...
View Article[RFC] [PATCH] Generic WorkQueue Engine (GenWQE) device driver (1 reply)
The GenWQE device is a PCIe card used to acclerate different tasks. Since it is configurable it can be adjusted to different purposes. Our initial task for the card is to do zlib style...
View ArticleRe: linux-next: Tree for Jul 25 [ call-trace: drm | drm-intel related? ] (no...
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > Changes since 20130724: > > Removed tree: > arm-dt (at maintainer's request) >...
View Article[RFC][PATCH 0/2] s390/kvm: add kvm support for guest page hinting v2 (2 replies)
v1->v2: - found a way to simplify the common code patch Linux on s390 as a guest under z/VM has been using the guest page hinting interface (alias collaborative memory management) for a long time....
View Article[PATCH v5.1 8/8] memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quickly...
shrink_zone starts with soft reclaim pass first and then falls back to regular reclaim if nothing has been scanned. This behavior is natural but there is a catch. Memcg iterators, when used with the...
View Article[PATCH v5.1 4/8] memcg: enhance memcg iterator to support predicates (no...
The caller of the iterator might know that some nodes or even subtrees should be skipped but there is no way to tell iterators about that so the only choice left is to let iterators to visit each node...
View Article[PATCH v5.1 6/8] memcg, vmscan: Do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would...
mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim controls whether soft reclaim pass is done and it always says yes currently. Memcg iterators are clever to skip nodes that are not soft reclaimable quite efficiently but...
View Article[PATCH v5.1 5/8] memcg: track children in soft limit excess to improve soft...
Soft limit reclaim has to check the whole reclaim hierarchy while doing the first pass of the reclaim. This leads to a higher system time which can be visible especially when there are many groups in...
View Article[PATCH v5.1 3/8] vmscan, memcg: Do softlimit reclaim also for targeted...
Soft reclaim has been done only for the global reclaim (both background and direct). Since "memcg: integrate soft reclaim tighter with zone shrinking code" there is no reason for this limitation...
View Article[PATCH v5.1 2/8] memcg: Get rid of soft-limit tree infrastructure (no replies)
Now that the soft limit is integrated to the reclaim directly the whole soft-limit tree infrastructure is not needed anymore. Rip it out. Changes v1->v2 - mem_cgroup_reclaimable is no longer used -...
View Article[PATCH v5.1] Soft limit rework (no replies)
Hi, This is basically the v5 of the patchset again. There are no changes except for rebase on top of the current mmotm tree (2013-07-18-16-40) + new testing results. Summary of previous versions: The...
View Article[PATCH 2/3] Input: omap-keypad: errata i689: Correct debounce time (no replies)
From: Axel Haslam <axelhaslam@ti.com> Set debounce time value to 12ms to workaround the errata. ERRATA DESCRIPTION: When a key is released for a time shorter than the debounce time, in-between 2...
View Article[PATCH 3/3] Input: omap-keypad: Set irq to level instead of edge (no replies)
From: Axel Haslam <axelhaslam@ti.com> Set mpu irq to level instead of edge, since if mpu is in low power an edge detection may be lost if the event is a wkup event. Signed-off-by: Axel Haslam...
View Article[PATCH 0/3] Input: omap-keypad: Wakeup capability and w/a for i689 errata. (2...
This patchset adds wake up capability for the keypad and workaround for i689 errata. Based on top of v3.11-rc2 Depends on: Input: omap-keypad: Convert to threaded IRQ...
View Article[GIT PATCH] char/misc patches for 3.11-rc3 (no replies)
The following changes since commit ad81f0545ef01ea651886dddac4bef6cec930092: Linux 3.11-rc1 (2013-07-14 15:18:27 -0700) are available in the git repository at:...
View Article[GIT PATCH] Staging driver fixes for 3.11-rc3 (no replies)
The following changes since commit 3b2f64d00c46e1e4e9bd0bb9bb12619adac27a4b: Linux 3.11-rc2 (2013-07-21 12:05:29 -0700) are available in the git repository at:...
View Article[GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 3.11-rc3 (no replies)
The following changes since commit ad81f0545ef01ea651886dddac4bef6cec930092: Linux 3.11-rc1 (2013-07-14 15:18:27 -0700) are available in the git repository at:...
View Article[GIT PATCH] TTY/Serial fixes for 3.11-rc3 (no replies)
The following changes since commit 3b2f64d00c46e1e4e9bd0bb9bb12619adac27a4b: Linux 3.11-rc2 (2013-07-21 12:05:29 -0700) are available in the git repository at:...
View Article[PATCH] procfs: remove extra call of dir_emit_dots (no replies)
dir_emit_dots() is called twice. Looks like a typo. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc:...
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