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[PATCH 6/6] sched: enable SD_IDLE_LOAD_BALANCE on MC, CPU and NUMA (x86) domains
Enable SD_IDLE_LOAD_BALANCE on MC, CPU and NUMA for x86. This sched flag enables the idle load balancer on these scheduling domains. Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao(a)google.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h | 2 +- include/linux/topology.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 delet... 30 Jul 2010 02:07

[PATCH 2/6] sched: add SD_IDLE_LOAD_BALANCE to sched domain flags
Add a new sched domain flag called SD_IDLE_LOAD_BALANCE. SCHED_IDLE tasks are balanced by the SCHED_IDLE balancer on this domain when enabled, and are handled by the SCHED_NORMAL load balancer when disabled. This patch also adds this flag to sched domain init functions in include/linux/topology.h and arch/x86/inc... 30 Jul 2010 02:07

[PATCH]: Compress hibernation image with LZO (in-kernel)
This patch speeds up hibernate/thaw operations (in kernel ones) by compressing the pages using LZO. Tests on my ThinkPad T510 show that hibernation times can be cut by the factor of about 4 for an image of around 1 GB (from about a minute down to about 15 seconds). I'm not really familiar with kernel internals, s... 30 Jul 2010 02:07

Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.
On 07/30/2010 01:31 AM, Shirley Ma wrote: Our goal is to improve the bandwidth and reduce the CPU usage. Exact performance data will be provided later. I did some vhost performance measurement over 10Gb ixgbe, and found that in order to get consistent BW results, netperf/netserver, qemu, vhost thr... 4 Aug 2010 06:00

linux-next: build warning after merge of the devicetree tree
Hi Grant, After merging the devicetree tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc64 allnoconfig) produced this warning: drivers/of/irq.c: In function 'of_irq_map_raw': drivers/of/irq.c:102: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size Introduced by commit 7d12c3ee9e1843b1d19d9c308988bb163fb9aa0b ("of... 30 Jul 2010 03:12

[ANNOUNCE] Open CWorthy Packet Generator for Linux 07-29-2010
CURRENT http://open-cworthy-linux-packet-generator.googlecode.com/files/cwgen-07-29-2010.tar.gz REPOSITORIES http://code.google.com/p/open-cworthy-linux-packet-generator/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cworthypktgen/ FIXES - fix build and test on 2.6.28.10 - fix build and test on 2.6.29.6 - fix build and t... 30 Jul 2010 01:02

[ANNOUNCE] Open CWorthy Libraries 07-29-2010
CURRENT http://cworthylinux.googlecode.com/files/cworthy-07-29-2010.tar.gz REPOSITORIES http://code.google.com/p/cworthylinux/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencworthy/ FIXES - fix DOS conditionals - fix cwgen build and test on 2.6.28.10 - fix cwgen build and test on 2.6.29.6 - fix cwgen build and test ... 30 Jul 2010 01:02

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linux-next: build failure after merge of the security-testing tree
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi James, After merging the security-testing tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: security/Kconfig:144: can't open file "security/apparmor/Kconfig" Caused by commit 32bd8e5273c0be4189274ab55c4d16862f0dd87d ("... 4 Aug 2010 22:21

linux-next: build failure after merge of the devicetree tree
Hi Grant, After merging the devicetree tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: drivers/spi/xilinx_spi.c: In function 'xilinx_spi_init': drivers/spi/xilinx_spi.c:393: error: 'struct device' has no member named 'of_node' drivers/spi/xilinx_spi.c:393: error: 'struct device' has no m... 30 Jul 2010 03:12