linux-toradex.git/include, branch v2.6.18-rc2

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2006-07-15T04:57:06+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [VLAN]: __vlan_hwaccel_rx can use the faster ether_compare_addr
  [PKT_SCHED] HTB: initialize upper bound properly
  [IPV4]: Clear skb cb on IP input
  [NET]: Update frag_list in pskb_trim

[PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal

2006-07-15T04:56:14+00:00

set_wmb should not be used in the kernel because it just confuses the
code more and has no benefit.  Since it is not currently used in the
kernel this patch removes it so that new code does not include it.

All archs define set_wmb(var, value) to do { var = value; wmb(); }
while(0) except ia64 and sparc which use a mb() instead.  But this is
still moot since it is not used anyway.

Hasn't been tested on any archs but x86 and x86_64 (and only compiled
tested)

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] per-task delay accounting taskstats interface: control exit data through cpumasks

2006-07-15T04:53:57+00:00

On systems with a large number of cpus, with even a modest rate of tasks
exiting per cpu, the volume of taskstats data sent on thread exit can
overflow a userspace listener's buffers.

One approach to avoiding overflow is to allow listeners to get data for a
limited and specific set of cpus.  By scaling the number of listeners
and/or the cpus they monitor, userspace can handle the statistical data
overload more gracefully.

In this patch, each listener registers to listen to a specific set of cpus
by specifying a cpumask.  The interest is recorded per-cpu.  When a task
exits on a cpu, its taskstats data is unicast to each listener interested
in that cpu.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing out the various scalability and
general concerns of previous attempts and for suggesting this design.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] per-task delay accounting: avoid send without listeners

2006-07-15T04:53:57+00:00

Don't send taskstats (per-pid or per-tgid) on thread exit when no one is
listening for such data.

Currently the taskstats interface allocates a structure, fills it in and
calls netlink to send out per-pid and per-tgid stats regardless of whether
a userspace listener for the data exists (netlink layer would check for
that and avoid the multicast).

As a result of this patch, the check for the no-listener case is performed
early, avoiding the redundant allocation and filling up of the taskstats
structures.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] delay accounting taskstats interface send tgid once

2006-07-15T04:53:57+00:00

Send per-tgid data only once during exit of a thread group instead of once
with each member thread exit.

Currently, when a thread exits, besides its per-tid data, the per-tgid data
of its thread group is also sent out, if its thread group is non-empty.
The per-tgid data sent consists of the sum of per-tid stats for all
*remaining* threads of the thread group.

This patch modifies this sending in two ways:

- the per-tgid data is sent only when the last thread of a thread group
  exits.  This cuts down heavily on the overhead of sending/receiving
  per-tgid data, especially when other exploiters of the taskstats
  interface aren't interested in per-tgid stats

- the semantics of the per-tgid data sent are changed.  Instead of being
  the sum of per-tid data for remaining threads, the value now sent is the
  true total accumalated statistics for all threads that are/were part of
  the thread group.

The patch also addresses a minor issue where failure of one accounting
subsystem to fill in the taskstats structure was causing the send of
taskstats to not be sent at all.

The patch has been tested for stability and run cerberus for over 4 hours
on an SMP.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: /proc export of aggregated block I/O delays

2006-07-15T04:53:57+00:00

Export I/O delays seen by a task through /proc//stats for use in top
etc.

Note that delays for I/O done for swapping in pages (swapin I/O) is clubbed
together with all other I/O here (this is not the case in the netlink
interface where the swapin I/O is kept distinct)

[akpm@osdl.org: printk warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Jes Sorensen 
Cc: Peter Chubb 
Cc: Erich Focht 
Cc: Levent Serinol 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: delay accounting usage of taskstats interface

2006-07-15T04:53:56+00:00

Usage of taskstats interface by delay accounting.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Jes Sorensen 
Cc: Peter Chubb 
Cc: Erich Focht 
Cc: Levent Serinol 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: taskstats interface

2006-07-15T04:53:56+00:00

Create a "taskstats" interface based on generic netlink (NETLINK_GENERIC
family), for getting statistics of tasks and thread groups during their
lifetime and when they exit.  The interface is intended for use by multiple
accounting packages though it is being created in the context of delay
accounting.

This patch creates the interface without populating the fields of the data
that is sent to the user in response to a command or upon the exit of a task.
Each accounting package interested in using taskstats has to provide an
additional patch to add its stats to the common structure.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, Kconfig fix]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Jes Sorensen 
Cc: Peter Chubb 
Cc: Erich Focht 
Cc: Levent Serinol 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: utilities for genetlink usage

2006-07-15T04:53:56+00:00

Two utilities for simplifying usage of NETLINK_GENERIC interface.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Cc: Jes Sorensen 
Cc: Peter Chubb 
Cc: Erich Focht 
Cc: Levent Serinol 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: cpu delay collection via schedstats

2006-07-15T04:53:56+00:00

Make the task-related schedstats functions callable by delay accounting even
if schedstats collection isn't turned on.  This removes the dependency of
delay accounting on schedstats.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman 
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar 
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Jes Sorensen 
Cc: Peter Chubb 
Cc: Erich Focht 
Cc: Levent Serinol 
Cc: Jay Lan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds