)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "5d3f083d8f897ce2560bbd4dace483d5aa60d623", "tree": "2883a9a22171cb4d96518a8e02963762e8c1f50b", "parents": [ "4ae0edc21b152c126e4a8c94ad5391f8ea051b31" ], "author": { "name": "Matt LaPlante", "email": "kernel1@cyberdogtech.com", "time": "Thu Nov 30 05:21:10 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Thu Nov 30 05:21:10 2006 +0100" }, "message": "Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc\n\nThis patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some\nmisc words.\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt LaPlante \u003ckernel1@cyberdogtech.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0ff38490c836dc379ff7ec45b10a15a662f4e5f6", "tree": "cb42d5d3cace3c8d12f0b304879039c503807981", "parents": [ "972d1a7b140569084439a81265a0f15b74e924e0" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Mon Sep 25 23:31:52 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 08:48:51 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] zone_reclaim: dynamic slab reclaim\n\nCurrently one can enable slab reclaim by setting an explicit option in\n/proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. Slab reclaim is then used as a final\noption if the freeing of unmapped file backed pages is not enough to free\nenough pages to allow a local allocation.\n\nHowever, that means that the slab can grow excessively and that most memory\nof a node may be used by slabs. We have had a case where a machine with\n46GB of memory was using 40-42GB for slab. Zone reclaim was effective in\ndealing with pagecache pages. However, slab reclaim was only done during\nglobal reclaim (which is a bit rare on NUMA systems).\n\nThis patch implements slab reclaim during zone reclaim. Zone reclaim\noccurs if there is a danger of an off node allocation. At that point we\n\n1. Shrink the per node page cache if the number of pagecache\n pages is more than min_unmapped_ratio percent of pages in a zone.\n\n2. Shrink the slab cache if the number of the nodes reclaimable slab pages\n (patch depends on earlier one that implements that counter)\n are more than min_slab_ratio (a new /proc/sys/vm tunable).\n\nThe shrinking of the slab cache is a bit problematic since it is not node\nspecific. So we simply calculate what point in the slab we want to reach\n(current per node slab use minus the number of pages that neeed to be\nallocated) and then repeately run the global reclaim until that is\nunsuccessful or we have reached the limit. I hope we will have zone based\nslab reclaim at some point which will make that easier.\n\nThe default for the min_slab_ratio is 5%\n\nAlso remove the slab option from /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9614634fe6a138fd8ae044950700d2af8d203f97", "tree": "9b020c1d36d8625f4048c057058efb2e17c81973", "parents": [ "cb6358eb69d9854f65f2979c0ce9280eee041828" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Mon Jul 03 00:24:13 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 03 15:26:59 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] ZVC/zone_reclaim: Leave 1% of unmapped pagecache pages for file I/O\n\nIt turns out that it is advantageous to leave a small portion of unmapped file\nbacked pages if all of a zone\u0027s pages (or almost all pages) are allocated and\nso the page allocator has to go off-node.\n\nThis allows recently used file I/O buffers to stay on the node and\nreduces the times that zone reclaim is invoked if file I/O occurs\nwhen we run out of memory in a zone.\n\nThe problem is that zone reclaim runs too frequently when the page cache is\nused for file I/O (read write and therefore unmapped pages!) alone and we have\nalmost all pages of the zone allocated. Zone reclaim may remove 32 unmapped\npages. File I/O will use these pages for the next read/write requests and the\nunmapped pages increase. After the zone has filled up again zone reclaim will\nremove it again after only 32 pages. This cycle is too inefficient and there\nare potentially too many zone reclaim cycles.\n\nWith the 1% boundary we may still remove all unmapped pages for file I/O in\nzone reclaim pass. However. it will take a large number of read and writes\nto get back to 1% again where we trigger zone reclaim again.\n\nThe zone reclaim 2.6.16/17 does not show this behavior because we have a 30\nsecond timeout.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: rename the /proc file and the variable]\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "34aa1330f9b3c5783d269851d467326525207422", "tree": "a47db4fa53527ea937dee9e763267ab21865ce11", "parents": [ "f3dbd34460ff54962d3e3244b6bcb7f5295356e6" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Fri Jun 30 01:55:37 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 30 11:25:35 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] zoned vm counters: zone_reclaim: remove /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval\n\nThe zone_reclaim_interval was necessary because we were not able to determine\nhow many unmapped pages exist in a zone. Therefore we had to scan in\nintervals to figure out if any pages were unmapped.\n\nWith the zoned counters and NR_ANON_PAGES we now know the number of pagecache\npages and the number of mapped pages in a zone. So we can simply skip the\nreclaim if there is an insufficient number of unmapped pages. We use\nSWAP_CLUSTER_MAX as the boundary.\n\nDrop all support for /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fadd8fbd153c12963f8fe3c9ef7f8967f286f98b", "tree": "547cdee6203b769773521118a4dd19e95a7ef3fd", "parents": [ "67de648211fa041fe08a0c25241a4980bbb90698" ], "author": { "name": "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki", "email": "kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com", "time": "Fri Jun 23 02:03:13 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 23 07:42:47 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] support for panic at OOM\n\nThis patch adds panic_on_oom sysctl under sys.vm.\n\nWhen sysctl vm.panic_on_oom \u003d 1, the kernel panics intead of killing rogue\nprocesses. And if vm.panic_on_oom is 0 the kernel will do oom_kill() in\nthe same way as it does today. Of course, the default value is 0 and only\nroot can modifies it.\n\nIn general, oom_killer works well and kill rogue processes. So the whole\nsystem can survive. But there are environments where panic is preferable\nrather than kill some processes.\n\nSigned-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki \u003ckamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2a16e3f4b0c408b9e50297d2ec27e295d490267a", "tree": "71569cfdf06fb83497e88e4e6543fbe624488aa3", "parents": [ "1b2ffb7896ad46067f5b9ebf7de1891d74a4cdef" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@engr.sgi.com", "time": "Wed Feb 01 03:05:35 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Feb 01 08:53:16 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Reclaim slab during zone reclaim\n\nIf large amounts of zone memory are used by empty slabs then zone_reclaim\nbecomes uneffective. This patch shakes the slab a bit.\n\nThe problem with this patch is that the slab reclaim is not containable to a\nzone. Thus slab reclaim may affect the whole system and be extremely slow.\nThis also means that we cannot determine how many pages were freed in this\nzone. Thus we need to go off node for at least one allocation.\n\nThe functionality is disabled by default.\n\nWe could modify the shrinkers to take a zone parameter but that would be quite\ninvasive. Better ideas are welcome.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1b2ffb7896ad46067f5b9ebf7de1891d74a4cdef", "tree": "a8f257639d4041bf0e7d61eda3fb72f2eb69f4bc", "parents": [ "2a11ff06d7d12be5d1bbcf592fff649b45ac2388" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@engr.sgi.com", "time": "Wed Feb 01 03:05:34 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Feb 01 08:53:16 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Zone reclaim: Allow modification of zone reclaim behavior\n\nIn some situations one may want zone_reclaim to behave differently. For\nexample a process writing large amounts of memory will spew unto other nodes\nto cache the writes if many pages in a zone become dirty. This may impact the\nperformance of processes running on other nodes.\n\nAllowing writes during reclaim puts a stop to that behavior and throttles the\nprocess by restricting the pages to the local zone.\n\nSimilarly one may want to contain processes to local memory by enabling\nregular swap behavior during zone_reclaim. Off node memory allocation can\nthen be controlled through memory policies and cpusets.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2a11ff06d7d12be5d1bbcf592fff649b45ac2388", "tree": "cef86d3f60b6ae5b3dab277a554a92a8e08d903b", "parents": [ "a92f71263af9d0ab77c260f709c0c079656221aa" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@engr.sgi.com", "time": "Wed Feb 01 03:05:33 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Feb 01 08:53:16 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period.\n\nCurrently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node\nallocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left. Reclaim\nwill be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless\nscans for memory. This is also useful to established sufficiently large off\nnode allocation chunks to relieve the local node.\n\nIt may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations.\nFor example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up\nfor longer periods of time. If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want\nto shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations.\n\nThis patch allows just that....\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1743660b911bfb849b1fb33830522254561b9f9b", "tree": "82bfd84f534e7a571667916f90e2492c7148cbac", "parents": [ "9eeff2395e3cfd05c9b2e6074ff943a34b0c5c21" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Wed Jan 18 17:42:32 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jan 18 19:20:17 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc override\n\nproc support for zone reclaim\n\nThis patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be\nused to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on\nbootup.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8ad4b1fb8205340dba16b63467bb23efc27264d6", "tree": "9f5c237ead93976e5454c5da5d3bba350a2419c5", "parents": [ "9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232" ], "author": { "name": "Rohit Seth", "email": "rohit.seth@intel.com", "time": "Sun Jan 08 01:00:40 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 20:12:40 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurable\n\nAs recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and\nhigh water marks for per_cpu_pagelists. This patch makes these two\nvariables configurable through /proc interface.\n\nA new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added. This entry\ncontrols the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for\neach per cpu page list. The min value for this is 8. It means that we\ndon\u0027t allow more than 1/8th of pages in each zone to be allocated in any\nsingle per_cpu_pagelist.\n\nThe batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result. It\nis set to pcp-\u003ehigh/4. The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)\n\nSigned-off-by: Rohit Seth \u003crohit.seth@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232", "tree": "a3a0a763bf83a483282dc1c3caab587941a98fc2", "parents": [ "bec6b0c89b234090681a4516e20ac5debe3e7c59" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 01:00:39 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 20:12:40 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] drop-pagecache\n\nAdd /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to\ndiscard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis\noperation requires root permissions.\n\nIt won\u0027t drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync\u0027 first.\n\nCaveats:\n\na) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.\n\nb) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through\n so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.\n\nThis is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between\nfilesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but\nit\u0027s less than 300 bytes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }