1. 30 Apr, 2002 3 commits
  2. 26 Apr, 2002 3 commits
    • Martin Dalecki's avatar
      [PATCH] 2.5.10 IDE 42 · 9dbf0015
      Martin Dalecki authored
      - Streamline the usage of sector_t over the strategy routines in question a
         bit. Streamline the do_request code in ide-disk.c.
      
      - Improve the readability of start_request in ide.c.
      
      - Remove obsolete/nowhere used stuff from hdreg.h.
      
      - Splitup special_t into classical flag field.
      
      - Use only a single field to determine the capacity of a drive.  Make this
         field and the code paths it follows as far as possible use the sector_t
         instead of a hard coded integer types.  This increases the chances that at
         some distant point in time we will indeed be able to use 64 bit wide sector_t
         entities. (Disks are getting huge those times now...)
      9dbf0015
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      f62e2b90
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] permit zero-length readahead, and tidy up readahead · 92216226
      Andrew Morton authored
      - Initialise the per-request_queue readahead parameter properly,
        rather than the dopey "if it's zero you get the deafult"
        approach.
      
      - Permit zero-length readahead.
      
      - 80-columnify mm/readahead.c
      92216226
  3. 25 Apr, 2002 31 commits
  4. 24 Apr, 2002 3 commits
    • Kai Germaschewski's avatar
      Remove the now unused MOD_TARGET hack · d0096496
      Kai Germaschewski authored
      d0096496
    • Kai Germaschewski's avatar
      Cleanup aic7xxx build · ebf826e1
      Kai Germaschewski authored
      Forward port changes from 2.4.19-pre, originally by Keith Owens.
      This driver used to build a module target called "aic7xxx_mod.o" and
      introduced the MOD_TARGET variable to rename it to "aic7xxx.o" at
      modules_install time.
          
      Now, we just build "aic7xxx.o" directly, which becomes possible after
      renaming aic7xxx.c to aic7xxx_core.c, as done in 2.4.19-pre.
      ebf826e1
    • Hanna V. Linder's avatar
      [PATCH] FastWalk Dcache · 898683e9
      Hanna V. Linder authored
      Reduce cacheline bouncing when a dentry is in the cache.
      
      Specifically, the d_count reference counter is not incremented and
      decremented for every dentry in a path during path walking if the dentry
      is in the dcache.  Execcisve atomic inc/dec's are expensive on SMP
      systems due to the cachline bouncing.
      898683e9