The patchset is meant to be pretty stable, not so much a testing ground. Main differences from mainline are: 1. Better performance & resource consumption, particularly on larger machines. 2. Diagnosis tools (kgdb, early_printk, etc). 3. Kexec support. 4. ivtv drivers I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any platform, however large or small. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.6.5/patch-2.6.5-mjb1.bz2 Since 2.6.5-rc3-mjb2 (~ = changed, + = added, - = dropped) Notes: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Now in Linus' tree: Dropped: New: + aio-retry + 4g4g-aio-hang-fix + aio-retry-elevated-refcount + aio-splice-runlist + aio-wait-page + aio-fs_read + aio-upfront-readahead + O_SYNC-speedup + aio-O_SYNC + gang_lookup_next + aio-gang_lookup-fix + aio-O_SYNC-short-write-fix.patch + aio-cancel-fix + aio-read-immediate + aio-pipe + aio-context-switch + aio-putioctx-flushworkqueue + aio-poll AIO filesystem support Suparna et al. + per_task_TUB_PPC32 Anton Enable per-task TASK_UMAPPED_BASE on PPC32 + jbd_journal_speedup Andrew Morton ext3 fs speedup + amd64_sched Darren Hart Make AMD scheduler behave as flat SMP, not NUMA Pending: per_node_rss local_balance_exec reluctance in cross-node balance (less_bouncy) sched tunables patch emulex update NUMA membinding API x86_64 update config_numasched sched tunables (reinstante) list_of_lists Child runs first (akpm) Netdump Present in this patch: -mjb Martin J. Bligh Add a tag to the makefile kgdb Various Stolen from akpm's 2.6.0-mm1, includes fixes kgdboe_netpoll Matt Mackall et al. Kgdb over ethernet support that works with the netpoll infrastructure kgdboe_build_fix Andrew Morton Fix kgdboe stuff so non-ia32 platforms build kgdb_x86_64 Jim Houston Support kgdb on x86_64 kgdb_gdb6_patches Jim Houston Patches for gdb to support kgdb on x86_64, under scripts/kgdb/ ppc64_reloc_hide Anton Blanchard / Paul Mackerras PPC 64 fixups spinlock_inlining Andrew Morton & Martin J. Bligh Inline spinlocks for profiling. Made into a ugly config option by me. lockmeter John Hawkes / Hanna Linder Locking stats. lockmeter_ia64 Ray Bryant Add a config option for lockmeter on ia64 oops_dump_preceding_code Andrew Morton dump opcodes preceding and after the offending EIP. scheduler_2.6.5_rc3_mm1 Nick Piggin sched_domains code 4k_stacks Arjan / Dave H / bcrl Provide an option to use 4k kernel stacks instead of 8k confighz Andrew Morton / Dave Hansen Make HZ a config option of 100 Hz or 1000 Hz config_page_offset Dave Hansen / Andrea Make PAGE_OFFSET a config option numameminfo Martin Bligh / Keith Mannthey Expose NUMA meminfo information under /proc/meminfo.numa partial_objrmap Dave McCracken Object based rmap for filebacked pages. anon_mm2 Hugh Dickins anon_mm3 Hugh Dickins anon_mm4 Hugh Dickins anon_mm5 Hugh Dickins anon_mm6 Hugh Dickins anon_mm7 Hugh Dickins anon_mm8 Hugh Dickins Object based rmap for anonymous memory 4g4g Ingo Molnar Provide a 4G/4G user/kernel split for 32 bit memory lushes. 4g_zap_low_mappings Martin Lorenz stop zap_low_mappings from being __init 4g4g_locked_copy Dave McCracken Fix locking bug in 4/4 split disable preempt Martin J. Bligh I broke preempt somehow, temporarily disable it to stop accidents aiofix2 Mingming Cao fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc() percpu_real_loadavg Dave Hansen / Martin J. Bligh Tell me what the real load average is, and tell me per cpu. gfp_node_strict Dave Hansen Add a node strict binding as a gfp mask option irqbal_fast Adam Litke Balance IRQs more readily kcg Adam Litke Acylic call graphs from the kernel. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! kcg_gcc_detect Adam Litke Detect older gcc versions that don't work with mcount, and crap out numa_mem_equals Dave Hansen mem= command line parameter NUMA awareness. autoswap Con Kolivas Auto-tune swapiness emulex driver Emulex Driver for emulex fiberchannel cards multiple_emulex Mike Anderson Allow multiple Emulex cards protocol254 Paul Mackerras / Omkhar Allow protocol 254 slabtune Dave McCracken Take slab in bigger bites on larger machines topdown Bill Irwin Turn userspace upside down for fun & profit stacktrace Adam Litke Stack backtracing via frame pointers fasync_lock_rcu Manfred Spraul Use RCU for fasync_lock aio-retry 4g4g-aio-hang-fix aio-retry-elevated-refcount aio-splice-runlist aio-wait-page aio-fs_read aio-upfront-readahead O_SYNC-speedup aio-O_SYNC gang_lookup_next aio-gang_lookup-fix aio-O_SYNC-short-write-fix.patch aio-cancel-fix aio-read-immediate aio-pipe aio-context-switch aio-putioctx-flushworkqueue aio-poll AIO filesystem support Suparna et al. kexec Eric Biederman et al. Exec a kernel for breakfast today. lockmeter_notsc Martin J. Bligh Lockmeter does not require CONFIG_X86_TSC. tiocgdev Gerd Knorr vma_statistics Martin J. Bligh Provide per VMA stats per_task_TUB Adam Litke Per task TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE per_task_TUB_PPC32 Anton Enable per-task TASK_UMAPPED_BASE on PPC32 implicit_hugetlb Adam Litke Implicit allocation of huge pages hugetlb_dyn_as Adam Litke Dynamic huge pages. irq_vector James Cleverdon Fix irq vector limits for Summit ivtv Kevin Thayer / Steven Fuerst Driver for ivtv (includes Hauppauge PVR 250 / 350) Written by Kevin Thayer, ported to 2.6 by Steven Fuerst Version 0.1.9 sysfs_backing_store1 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store2 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store3 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store4 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store5 Maneesh Soni sysfs_backing_store6 Maneesh Soni Make sysfs more efficient in its usage of lowmem vgtod1 John Stultz vgtod2 John Stultz vgtod3 John Stultz Vsyscall gettimeofday for ia32 physnode_map Martin J. Bligh Hack around problem of missing area in physnode_map sched_tunables R. Love / Darren Hart Provide sched tunables to play with on a rainy day. zone_gap Andy Whitcroft Fix up the gap between ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_HIGHMEM on NUMA. max_mp_busses James Cleverdon Increase MAX_MP_BUSSES schedstats Rick Lindsley Provide lotsa scheduler statistics schedstats-tools Rick Lindsley Grub around in lotsa scheduler statistics jbd_journal_speedup Andrew Morton ext3 fs speedup amd64_sched Darren Hart Make AMD scheduler behave as flat SMP, not NUMA