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  1. Jan 09, 2006
  2. Oct 31, 2005
    • Paul Jackson's avatar
      [PATCH] cpusets: confine pdflush to its cpuset · 28a42b9e
      Paul Jackson authored
      
      This patch keeps pdflush daemons on the same cpuset as their parent, the
      kthread daemon.
      
      Some large NUMA configurations put as much as they can of kernel threads
      and other classic Unix load in what's called a bootcpuset, keeping the rest
      of the system free for dedicated jobs.
      
      This effort is thwarted by pdflush, which dynamically destroys and
      recreates pdflush daemons depending on load.
      
      It's easy enough to force the originally created pdflush deamons into the
      bootcpuset, at system boottime.  But the pdflush threads created later were
      allowed to run freely across the system, due to the necessary line in their
      startup kthread():
      
              set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);
      
      By simply coding pdflush to start its threads with the cpus_allowed
      restrictions of its cpuset (inherited from kthread, its parent) we can
      ensure that dynamically created pdflush threads are also kept in the
      bootcpuset.
      
      On systems w/o cpusets, or w/o a bootcpuset implementation, the following
      will have no affect, leaving pdflush to run on any CPU, as before.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      28a42b9e
  3. Jun 26, 2005
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      [PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing · 3e1d1d28
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:
      
         frozen(process)		Check for frozen process
         freezing(process)		Check if a process is being frozen
         freeze(process)		Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
         thaw_process(process)	Restart process
         frozen_process(process)	Process is frozen now
      
      2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
         kernel sources except sched.h
      
      3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver
      
      4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.
      
      5. Some whitespace cleanup
      
      6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
         cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
         PF_FROZEN).
      
      This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
      that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
      in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3e1d1d28
  4. Apr 16, 2005
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      v2.6.12-rc2
      1da177e4
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