No point in spamming the logs with a message about xres rounding.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the CACHEFLUSH register on all chip types. The register is listed in all
other specs except 2064W. However I have verified that the register does work
on a 2064W despite being marked reserved in the specs. There were no
noticeable side effects after writing to the register.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add new entries for Mystique AGP with the PCI ID 0x051e.
I don't actually have such boards but according to google they do exist.
Curiosly X.Org doesn't recognize that PCI ID. And what's even more
interesting is that Matrox's own Windows drivers don't recognize it either.
After going through about a dozen different versions I did find one older
driver that does list this particular ID. It is also listed in the pci.ids
file.
I'm not sure if non-220 AGP chips exist. I left the chip revision check
intact for AGP chips nonetheless.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
wait_event_event_interruptible() uses a private wait queue entry so there's no
need for the caller to initialize one.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Here's the PCI ID for the ATI RN50 chip.
Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert i810fb, nvidiafb and savagefb to use the fb_find_best_display helper
when searching for the initial video mode.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add new helper, fb_find_best_display(), which will search the modelist for the
best mode for the attached display. This requires an EDID block that is
converted to struct fb_monspecs and a private modelist. The search will be
done in this manner:
- if 1st detailed timing is preferred, use that
- else if dimensions of the display are known, use that to estimate xres and
- else if modelist has detailed timings, use the first detailed timing
- else, use the very first entry from the modelist
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rearrange mode database entries such that preferred timings are entered first,
and less preferred timings are entered last. (Detailed, VESA,
established/standard).
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I converted the "rl" console font from the kbd utility to be a built-in font
for the framebuffer console, and I was wondering if you would be OK with
including it. I've generated a font_rl.c file and related minor
modifications. I find it's the most visually appealing of the kbd fonts which
is why I use it and selected it for conversion. I believe the font is GPL'd.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- The functions for reading the 1st and 2nd bus are essentially the same,
except for the register. Consolidate them all.
- According to Nicolas Boichat, there is an undocumented 3rd i2c bus for
attaching daughter cards. Add support for this.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
vesafb occassionally gets the size wrong when setting the mtrr. When X or DRI
attempts to set the mtrr, it will fail due to range overlap significantly
affecting their performance. Disable mtrr and let the user explicitly enable
it with the mtrr:n option.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initialise the .owner field, so that if the driver is built as a module, the
system has a link to the owner
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently the fb_find_nearest_mode() function finds a mode with screen
resolution closest to that described by the 'var' argument and with some
arbitrary refresh rate (eg. in the following sequence of refresh rates: 70 60
53 85 75, 53 is selected).
This patch fixes the function so that it looks for the closest mode as far as
both resolution and refresh rate are concerned. The function's first argument
is changed to fb_videomode so that the refresh rate can be specified by the
caller, as fb_var_screeninfo doesn't have any fields that could directly hold
this data.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use do {} while(0) for empty reverse_order() macro.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some EDID blocks set the flag "prefer first detailed timing" without providing
any detailed timing at all. Clear this flag if the block does not provide
detailed timings.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Attached is a small patch which configures the correct memory clock and
timings on the Elsa Winner 2000 Office pm2 based card. This is necessary when
the card is used on a platform which does not support PC style BIOS
initialization.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Reported by: Jean-Philippe Guérard (Bugzilla Bug 1782)
"I've tried with video=atyfb:debug and video=atyfb:debug,mode:1280x600, \
nomtrr.
In both case, the screen stays black, but seems divided into 4 vertical bands.
Some white lines pop up randomly on each vertical band."
The problem is a combination of an incorrect xclk plus lack of timing
information. The adapter is attached to an LCD device that can do 1280x600
(which is not a standard resolution). The global mode database does not have
an entry for it. Fortunately, the Video BIOS contains the complete timing
info for this display, however, atyfb is not making use of it.
Add support to get the timing information from the BIOS, if available.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix out-of-bounds bug. The pseudopalette has room only for 16 entries, thus,
write only the first 16 entries to the pseudopalette.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove software clipping from imageblit, fillrect and copyarea. Clipping is
not needed because the console layer assures that reads/writes doest not
happen beyond the extents of the framebuffer. And software clipping tends to
hide bugs, if they do exist.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If machine has more than 1 driver installed, and they all drive the same
hardware, it's possible that the driver's fb_release() method will attempt to
restore the hardware state to the initial state. This will leave the new
driver in an undefined state. To prevent this problem, initialize the new
driver by calling fb_set_par() when the old driver is released by fbcon.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas<adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Instead of manually filling up the fields in struct fb_var_screeninfo, use the
display_to_var() helper.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Lot's of redundant code scattered throughout fbcon.c. Consolidate them all
into one function, fbcon_update_softback().
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
According to Jon Smirl, filling in the field fb_cursor with soft_cursor for
drivers that do not support hardware cursors is redundant. The soft_cursor
function is usable by all drivers because it is just a wrapper around
fb_imageblit. And because soft_cursor is an fbcon-specific hook, the file is
moved to the console directory.
Thus, drivers that do not support hardware cursors can leave the fb_cursor
field blank. For drivers that do, they can fill up this field with their own
version.
The end result is a smaller code size. And if the framebuffer console is not
loaded, module/kernel size is also reduced because the soft_cursor module will
also not be loaded.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Prevent spurious recompilations of the radeonfb driver when I2C/DDC support
is not included and i2c header files are modified.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add partial support for GMA900 within the i915GM chipset.
Signed-off-by: Scott MacKenzie <irrational@poboxes.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
nvidiafb didn't fully hook-up the code it borrowed from X for doing flat
panel dithering (this is useful for 6 bits panels). This adds a driver
option to force it, and by default "reads" the current value from the chip
to get the firmware setting. It significantly improves the quality of
images on the iMac G5 I have here (though the X driver doesn't yet "read"
the current value and defaults to 0, so you have to add Option "FBDither"
"true" to your X config file to get that, I'll try to fix X.org to "read"
the default unless specified asap).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c: In function `NVCommonSetup':
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c:408: warning: statement with no effect
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c:496: warning: statement with no effect
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c:504: warning: statement with no effect
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes nvifiafb mode setting code to be closer to what the X
driver does, which actually makes it work on the 5200FX I have access to.
It also fix the routine that gets the EDID from Open Firmware on PPC, it
was broken in various ways and would crash at boot. Compared to the patch
I posted to linux-fbdev last week, this one just changes a printk to be
closer to the other ones in the driver.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arrange frame buffer menu:
- puts all Epson drivers together
- removes split of FB_PXA and FB_PXA_PARAMETERS by FB_W100
- results in PXA, W100, Epson, S3C2410, & Virtual FB drivers being
presented at the same menu level as all other FB drivers
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Frame buffer driver help text changes:
- Move S3 Trio next to S3 Savage;
- add or clarify help text for several FB drivers;
- add help text for FB console;
- add help text for bootup logos;
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix the warning "Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
include/asm/semaphore.h:102" that the zr36067 driver emits every time an
application using JPEG capture starts up (e.g. mjpegtools' lavrec).
The warning is harmless, but clogs up the dmesg output. This was logged as
bugzilla #5403. (Thanks to Christian Casteyde for helping me in fixing
this long-standing annoyance.)
Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updates the RIO messaging interface to pass a device instance into the
event registeration and callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Addresses issues raised with the 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 RIO support. Fix dma_mask
init, shrink some code, general cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds RapidIO enumeration/discovery.
The core code implements enumeration/discovery, management of
devices/resources, and interfaces for RIO drivers.
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds a RapidIO subsystem to the kernel. RIO is a switched fabric interconnect
used in higher-end embedded applications. The curious can look at the specs
over at http://www.rapidio.org
The core code implements enumeration/discovery, management of
devices/resources, and interfaces for RIO drivers.
There's a lot more to do to take advantages of all the hardware features.
However, this should provide a good base for folks with RIO hardware to start
contributing.
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If a panic came from the IPMI watchdog pretimeout and that was reported via
an NMI, it would also be reported via the standard IPMI flags, which would
get picked up when reporting panic events and cause another panic. This
adds an atomic to avoid calling panic twice.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use rcu_read_lock for the cmd_rcvrs list, since that was what what
intended, anyway. This means that all the users of the cmd_rcvrs_lock are
tasks, so the irq disables are no longer required for that lock and it can
become a semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert ipmi driver thread to kthread API, only sleep when interface is
idle.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We must poll for responses to commands when interrupts aren't in use. The
default poll interval is based on using a kernel timer, which varies with HZ.
For character-based interfaces like KCS and SMIC though, that can be way too
slow (>15 minutes to flash a new firmware with KCS, >20 seconds to retrieve
the sensor list).
This creates a low-priority kernel thread to poll more often. If the state
machine is idle, so is the kernel thread. But if there's an active command,
it polls quite rapidly. This decrease a firmware flash time from 15 minutes
to 1.5 minutes, and the sensor list time to 4.5 seconds, on a Dell PowerEdge
x8x system.
The timer-based polling remains, to ensure some amount of responsiveness even
under high user process CPU load.
Checking for a stopped timer at rmmod now uses atomics and del_timer_sync() to
ensure safe stoppage.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
BMCs can get into ERROR0 state while flashing new firmware, particularly while
the BMC is erasing the next flash block, which may take a just under 2 seconds
on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 (1.75 seconds typical), during which time the
single-threaded firmware may not be able to process new commands. In
particular, clearing OBF may not take effect immediately.
We want it to delay in ERROR0 after clearing OBF a bit waiting for OBF to
actually be clear before proceeding.
This introduces a new return value from the LLDD's event loop,
SI_SM_CALL_WITH_TICK_DELAY. This means the calling thread/timer should
schedule_timeout() at least 1 tick, rather than busy-wait. This is a longer
delay than SI_SM_CALL_WITH_DELAY, which is typically a 250us busy-wait.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The current BT retry/reset mechanism fails to succeed on a PowerEdge 1650,
when the controller is wedged with B2H_ATN asserted at XACTION_START. If this
occurs, no further commands will ever succeed unless the state of the
controller is first cleared out.
Furthermore, the soft reset would only occur if the first command after insmod
was the one that timed out, not if a later command timed out.
This patch changes the retry/reset mechanism to be as follows:
Before retrying a command, clear the state of the BT controller such that the
flags represent ready for a new transaction. This increases the chance of
success of the restarted transaction.
After 2 retries, issue a soft reset and retry one more time before giving up
and reporting back a failure.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Rocky Craig <rocky.craig@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some commands, on some system BMCs, don't respond at at all. This is seen on
Dell PowerEdge x6xx and x7xx systems with IPMI 1.0 BT controllers when a "Get
SDR" command is issued, with a length field of 0x3A, which happens to be the
length of about SDR entries. If another length is passed, this command
succeeds.
This patch adds general infrastructure for receiving commands before they're
passed down to the low-level drivers, such that they can be completed
immediately, or modified, prior to being sent to ->start_transaction().
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make SMIC driver ignore EVT_AVAIL and SMS_ATN bits in flags register, as
they're used by systems management interrupts, not the host OS.
Make the OEM0 Data Available handler work for pre-IPMI 1.5 systems from Dell
too.
Without these two fixes, PowerEdge 2650 and other similar systems with SMIC
may hang a process (modprobe or anything using /dev/ipmi0).
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make module_param and MODULE_PARAM_DESC agree on poweroff_powercycle name.
There was an extraneous ifdef in the IPMI poweroff code that prevented it from
working if PROC_FS was disabled.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Modify the IPMI watchdog parameters (the ones that make sense) to be exported
from sysfs. This is somewhat complicated because these parameters have
side-effects that must be handled.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A number of small changes for the various system interface drivers,
consolidated from a number of patches from Matt Domsch.
Clear B2H_ATN and drain the BMC message buffer on command timeout. This
prevents further commands from failing after a timeout.
Add bt_debug and smic_debug module parameters, expose them in sysfs. This
lets you enable and disable debugging messages at runtime.
Unsigned jiffies math in ipmi_si_intf.c causes a too-large value to be passed
to ->event() after jiffies wrap-around. The BT driver had caught this, but
didn't know how to fix it. Now all calls to ->event() use a sane value for
time.
Increase timeout for commands handed to the BT driver from 2 seconds to 5
seconds. This is necessary particularly when the previous command was a
"Clear SEL", as that command completes, yet the BMC isn't really ready to
handle another command yet.
Silence BT debugging messages which were being printed on the console.
Increase SMIC timeout form 1/10s to 2s. This is needed on Dell PowerEdge 2650
and PowerEdge 750 with ERA/O cards to allow commands to complete without
timing out.
Adds kcs_debug module param, to match behavior of BT and SMIC. This also
prevents messages from being sent to the console unless explicitly requested.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch is rather large, but it really can't be done in smaller chunks
easily and I believe it is an important change. This has been out and tested
for a while in the latest IPMI driver release. There are no functional
changes, just changes as necessary to convert the locking over (and a few
minor style updates).
The IPMI driver uses read/write locks to ensure that things exist while they
are in use. This is bad from a number of points of view. This patch removes
the rwlocks and uses refcounts and RCU lists to manage what the locks did.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce the notion of cooperating processes (those that submit requests
close to one another), and use these statistics to make better choices about
whether or not to do anticipatory waiting.
Help and analysis from Seetharami Seelam <seelam@cs.utep.edu>
Performance testing from Seelam:
I set up my system and executed a couple of tests that I used for OLS. I
tested with AS, cooperative process patch merged in -mm tree (which I called
Nick, below) and the cooperative patch with modifications to as_update_iohist
(which I called Seelam).
I used a dual-processor (2.28GHz Pentium 4 Xeon) system, with 1 GB main memory
and 1 MB L2 cache, running Linux 2.6.9. Only a single processor is used for
the experiments. I used 7.2K RPM Maxtor 10GB drive configured with ext2 file
system.
Experiment 1 (ex1) consists of reading one Linux source trees using
find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null.
Experiment 2 (ex2) consists of reading two disjoint Linux source trees
using
find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null.
Experiment 3 (ex3) consists of streaming read of a 2GB file in the background
and 1 instance of the chunk reads in Experiment 1.
Timings for reading the Linux source are shown below:
AS Nick Seelam
ex1: 0m25.813s 0m27.859s 0m27.640s
ex2: 1m11.468s 1m13.918s 1m5.869s
ex3: 81m44.352s 10m38.572s 6m47.994s
The difference between the numbers in Experiment 3 must be due to the code in
as_update_iohist. (akpm: that's not part of this patch. So this patch is
"Nick").
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
