* 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm:
SLUB: fix checkpatch warnings
Use non atomic unlock
SLUB: Support for performance statistics
SLUB: Alternate fast paths using cmpxchg_local
SLUB: Use unique end pointer for each slab page.
SLUB: Deal with annoying gcc warning on kfree()
The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but
at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the
statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache
footprint of SLUB.
There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime
statistics and its off by default.
The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options:
-D Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size
mode to activity mode.
-A Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of
the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load.
-r Report option will report detailed statistics on
Example (tbench load):
slabinfo -AD ->Shows the most active slabs
Name Objects Alloc Free %Fast
skbuff_fclone_cache 33 111953835 111953835 99 99
:0000192 2666 5283688 5281047 99 99
:0001024 849 5247230 5246389 83 83
vm_area_struct 1349 119642 118355 91 22
:0004096 15 66753 66751 98 98
:0000064 2067 25297 23383 98 78
dentry 10259 28635 18464 91 45
:0000080 11004 18950 8089 98 98
:0000096 1703 12358 10784 99 98
:0000128 762 10582 9875 94 18
:0000512 184 9807 9647 95 81
:0002048 479 9669 9195 83 65
anon_vma 777 9461 9002 99 71
kmalloc-8 6492 9981 5624 99 97
:0000768 258 7174 6931 58 15
So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load.
Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases
slabinfo -a | grep 000192
:0000192 <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP
request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili
Likely skbuff_head_cache.
Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through
slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache ->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned
.... Usual output ...
Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath 111953360 111946981 99 99
Slowpath 1044 7423 0 0
Page Alloc 272 264 0 0
Add partial 25 325 0 0
Remove partial 86 264 0 0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 350 4832 0 0
Total 111954404 111954404
Flushes 49 Refill 0
Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%)
Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken.
skbuff_head_cache:
Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath 5297262 5259882 99 99
Slowpath 4477 39586 0 0
Page Alloc 937 824 0 0
Add partial 0 2515 0 0
Remove partial 1691 824 0 0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 2621 9684 0 0
Total 5301739 5299468
Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%)
Descriptions of the output:
Total: The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a
slab
Fastpath: The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath.
Slowpath: Other allocations
Page Alloc: Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath
processing
Add Partial: Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or
alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes)
Remove Partial: Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of
allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing
the last object of a slab.
RemoteObj/Froz: How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a
slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was
free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use
as the cpuslab of another processor.
Flushes: Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request
(kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc)
Refill: Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from
remotely freed objects for the same slab.
Deactivate: Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were
put onto the partial list.
In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is
also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which
may potentially cause list lock contention.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
While the W83627EHF/EHG has only 6 VID pins, the W83627DHG has 8 VID
pins, to support VRD 11.0. Add support for this.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Hardy <steve@linuxrealtime.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
The W83627HF hardware monitoring features are supported by the
w83627hf driver for several years now. Support by the w83781d has
been advertised as deprecated 6 months ago, it's about time to see
it go.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
It's about time to reflect the move of the lm-sensors project to
lm-sensors.org.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
It happens that the Analog Devices ADM1024 is fully compatible with
the National Semiconductor LM87, so support for the former can easily
be added to the lm87 driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
We've never seen any device supported by the lm78 or w83781d driver at
addresses 0x20-0x27, so let's stop probing these addresses. Extra probes cost
time, and have potential for confusing or misdetecting other I2C devices.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
- add arcmsr_enable_eoi_mode()and readl(reg->iop2drv_doorbell_reg) in
arcmsr_handle_hbb_isr() on adapter Type B in case of the doorbell
interrupt clearance is cached
- add conditional declaration for arcmsr_pci_error_detected() and
arcmsr_pci_slot_reset
- check if the sg list member number exceeds arcmsr default limit in
arcmsr_build_ccb()
- change the returned value type of arcmsr_build_ccb()from "void" to
"int" returns FAILED in arcmsr_queue_command()
- modify arcmsr_drain_donequeue() to ignore unknown command and let
kernel process command timeout. This could handle IO request violating
maximum segments, i.e. Linux XFS over DM-CRYPT. Thanks to Milan Broz's
comments <mbroz@redhat.com>
- fix the release of dma memory for type B in arcmsr_free_ccb_pool()
- fix the arcmsr_polling_hbb_ccbdone()
Signed-off-by: Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This updates steeleye -> hansenpartnership in the documentation since
some email has been going astray because of this.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds:
leds: Add HP Jornada 6xx driver
leds: Remove the now uneeded ixp4xx driver
leds: Add power LED to the wrap driver
leds: Fix led-gpio active_low default brightness
leds: hw acceleration for Clevo mail LED driver
leds: Add support for hardware accelerated LED flashing
leds: Standardise LED naming scheme
leds: Add clevo notebook LED driver
(Old) mxser is obsoleted by mxser_new and scheduled for removal on Dec 2007.
Remove it by renaming mxser_new to mxser.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses
as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce
proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an
inode bad).
Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by
number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem.
iget_locked() should be used instead. A new function is added in an earlier
patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it
and release it should the get routine fail. Mark iget() and read_inode() as
being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation.
Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function
becomes an internal iget function, for example the following:
void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
...
}
would be changed into something like:
struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino)
{
struct inode *inode;
int ret;
inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
if (!inode)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW))
return inode;
...
unlock_new_inode(inode);
return inode;
error:
iget_failed(inode);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example:
ret = -EINVAL;
inode = iget(sb, ino);
if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode))
goto error;
becomes:
inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino);
if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
goto error;
}
Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called. The error returned by
thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path. This
includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and
releasing it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update cpuset documentation to match the October 2007 "Fix cpusets
update_cpumask" changes that now apply changes to a cpusets 'cpus' allowed
mask immediately to the cpus_allowed of the tasks in that cpuset.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_dump_tasks', that enables the kernel to produce a
dump of all system tasks (excluding kernel threads) when performing an
OOM-killing. Information includes pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu,
oom_adj score, and name.
This is helpful for determining why there was an OOM condition and which
rogue task caused it.
It is configurable so that large systems, such as those with several
thousand tasks, do not incur a performance penalty associated with dumping
data they may not desire.
If an OOM was triggered as a result of a memory controller, the tasklist
shall be filtered to exclude tasks that are not a member of the same
cgroup.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change the interface to use bytes instead of pages. Page sizes can vary
across platforms and configurations. A new strategy routine has been added
to the resource counters infrastructure to format the data as desired.
Suggested by David Rientjes, Andrew Morton and Herbert Poetzl
Tested on a UML setup with the config for memory control enabled.
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: possible race fix in res_counter]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the calls to the cgroup subsystem destroy() methods from
cgroup_rmdir() to cgroup_diput(). This allows control file reads and
writes to access their subsystem state without having to be concerned with
locking against cgroup destruction - the control file dentry will keep the
cgroup and its subsystem state objects alive until the file is closed.
The documentation is updated to reflect the changed semantics of destroy();
additionally the locking comments for destroy() and some other methods were
clarified and decrustified.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This comment is not helpful (no reason given) and is incorrect.
Just stick to facts that are useful regarding working on Linux.
(akpm: I've used sylpheed+imap for years)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we
should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories.
These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This documentation is also vfs-related.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I'm inclined to think dnotify belongs in filesystems/.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's no reason for edac.txt for being at this unusual place.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Extends the leds subsystem with a blink_set() callback function which can
be optionally implemented by a LED driver. If implemented, the driver can use
the hardware acceleration for blinking a LED.
Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
As discussed on LKML some notion of 'function' is needed in
LED naming. This patch adds this to the documentation and
standardises existing LED drivers.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
The acpi_no_initrd_override parameter permits to disable the load of an ACPI
table from the initramfs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
Based-on-original-patch-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Linus Torvalds
Christoph Lameter
Jean Delvare
Steve Hardy
Kevin Lo
Nick Cheng
James Bottomley
Jiri Slaby
David Howells
Paul Jackson
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
David Rientjes
Balbir Singh
Paul Menage
Randy Dunlap
J. Bruce Fields
Adrian Bunk
Rob Landley
Márton Németh
Richard Purdie
Len Brown
Éric Piel
Pavel Machek