Kernel

[PULL REQUEST] UDF changes for 2.6.36
Hello Linus, could you please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6.git for_linus to get two minor cleanups: Huang Weiyi (1): udf: remove duplicated #include Justin P. Mattock (1): udf: super.c Fix warning: variable 'sbi' set but not used The d... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn)
On 08/05/2010 02:51 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Michael Leun<lkml20100708(a)newton.leun.net> writes: Unfortunately looks like indefinitely. Never watched longer so far (rebooted soon), but I'm seeing this message now repeated every 10 secs for ~10 minutes on a idle system. Ugh. A real bug then. ... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

THIS IS MY SECOND MAIL TO YOU.
For your Attention, I am contacting you once more on behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the estate of late Dr Maurice Wohl, as you have not responded to my previous mail. I therefore contact you again with this same email as written in the will as it appears to be the only option for us to get through t... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

build failure
divya wrote: Yestersday's linux-next(2.6.35_next_20100802) build fails with the following error on both system p and x. drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c: In function 'ixgbe_select_queue': drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c:6159: error: 'struct ixgbe_fcoe' has no member named 'up' drivers/net/ixgb... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages.
P.S. If it wasn't clear, I'm still in favor of trying to coordinate barriers across the whole file system, since that is much more likely to help use cases that arise in real life. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess... 6 Aug 2010 14:53

[PATCH 01/13] writeback: reduce calls to global_page_state in balance_dirty_pages()
Reducing the number of times balance_dirty_pages calls global_page_state reduces the cache references and so improves write performance on a variety of workloads. 'perf stats' of simple fio write tests shows the reduction in cache access. Where the test is fio 'write,mmap,600Mb,pre_read' on AMD AthlonX2 with 3G... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

[PATCH 09/13] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target
Dynamically compute the dirty expire timestamp at queue_io() time. Also remove writeback_control.older_than_this which is no longer used. writeback_control.older_than_this used to be determined at entrance to the kupdate writeback work. This _static_ timestamp may go stale if the kupdate work runs on and on. The ... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

[PATCH 00/13] writeback patches for 2.6.36
Andrew, These are writeback patches intended for 2.6.36. It's combined from 2 previous patchsets: writeback cleanups and trivial fixes <http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/10/153> writeback: try to write older pages first <http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/22/47> changelog: - removed patch "writeback: take account of... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

[PATCH 08/13] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes()
This is to prepare for moving the dirty expire policy to move_expired_inodes(). No behavior change. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel(a)csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 dele... 5 Aug 2010 13:33

[PATCH 02/13] writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds
Split get_dirty_limits() into global_dirty_limits()+bdi_dirty_limit(), so that the latter can be avoided when under global dirty background threshold (which is the normal state for most systems). CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> --- fs/fs-writebac... 5 Aug 2010 13:33