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[PATCH] cgroup: add "procs" control file
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:02:25 +0800 Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> wrote: This control file is the equivalent of the "tasks" control file, but acting/reporting on entire thread groups. For example, we have a process with pid 1000 and its sub-thread with tid 1001, to attach them into a cgroup: # ec... 21 Jun 2008 02:35

putback_lru_page rework
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:21:06 -0400 Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn(a)hp.com> wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:40 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: Lee-san, how about this ? Tested on x86-64 and tried Nisimura-san's test at el. works good now. I have been testing with my work load on both ia64 and x... 22 Jun 2008 21:24

Cyrus mmap vs lseek/write usage - (WAS: BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable))
It actually does use MAP_SHARED already, but only for reading. Writing is all done with seeks and writes, followed by a map "refresh", which is really just an unmmap/mmap if the file has extended past the "SLOP" (between 8 and 16 k after the end of the file length at last mapping). So the mor... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 04:30 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: The only current user of this interface is mprotect Do you plan to use it with fork ultimately ? Good point, I'd overlooked that. I guess that means using it in ptep_set_wrprotect(). At... 20 Jun 2008 16:22

agp: two-stage page destruction issue
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Jan Beulich <jbeulich(a)novell.com> wrote: Dave, besides it apparently being useful only in 2.6.24 (the changes in 2.6.25 really mean that it could be converted back to a single-stage mechanism), I'm seeing an issue in Xen Dom0 kernels, which is caused by the calling of ... 19 Jun 2008 21:56

Request for discussion on when to merge drivers
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 09:31 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The only slight wrinkle (at least for me) is that often the process of cleaning up a driver is fairly intensive for a maintainer and turn around is a lot faster if you're doing it in a tree you control. (All the scsi drivers we've don... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Request for discussion on when to merge drivers
The only slight wrinkle (at least for me) is that often the process of cleaning up a driver is fairly intensive for a maintainer and turn around is a lot faster if you're doing it in a tree you control. (All the scsi drivers we've done like this have lived in temporary branches while they were being wo... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 04:30 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: The only current user of this interface is mprotect Do you plan to use it with fork ultimately ? Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More m... 21 Jun 2008 02:35

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6
The latest feature release GIT 1.5.6 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.6-1.$arch.rpm (RPM) ... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Request for discussion on when to merge drivers
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Benny Halevy wrote: Exposing the not-yet-ready-to-be-released code to linux-next will expose conflicts earlier, and hopefully in smaller, more manageable deltas. I like the way linux-next works now, i.e. it should reflect what is going into the next major kernel release. Nothing more,... 19 Jun 2008 05:29