- 04 Aug, 2015 3 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Fold the tracing hook into switch_to() in order to remove finish_arch_switch(). Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by:
Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
MIPS was using finish_arch_switch() as a hook to restore and initialize CPU context for all threads, even newly created kernel and user threads. This is however entirely solvable within switch_to() so get rid of finish_arch_switch() which is in the way of scheduler cleanups. Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Will Deacon authored
Fold finish_arch_switch() into switch_to(). Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Aug, 2015 22 commits
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Yuyang Du authored
For cfs_rq, we have load.weight, runnable_load_avg, and load_avg. Clean up how they are used: - First, as group sched_entity already largely uses load_avg, we now expand to use load_avg in all cases. - Second, for CPU-wide load balancing, we choose to use runnable_load_avg in all cases, which is the same as before this series. Signed-off-by:Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Yuyang Du authored
The cfs_rq's load_avg is composed of runnable_load_avg and blocked_load_avg. Before this series, sometimes the runnable_load_avg is used, and sometimes the load_avg is used. Completely replacing all uses of runnable_load_avg with load_avg may be too big a leap, i.e., the blocked_load_avg is concerned to result in overrated load. Therefore, we get runnable_load_avg back. The new cfs_rq's runnable_load_avg is improved to be updated with all of the runnable sched_eneities at the same time, so the one sched_entity updated and the others stale problem is solved. Signed-off-by:
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Yuyang Du authored
When task exits or group is destroyed, the entity's load should be removed from its parent cfs_rq's load. Otherwise, it will take time for the parent cfs_rq to decay the dead entity's load to 0, which is not desired. Signed-off-by:
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Yuyang Du authored
The runnable load and utilization averages of cfs_rq's sched_entity were not initiated. Like done to a task, give new cfs_rq' sched_entity start values to heavy its load in infant time. Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Guittot authored
The load and the utilization of idle CPUs must be updated periodically in order to decay the blocked part. If CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is not set, the load and util of idle cpus are not decayed and stay at the values set before becoming idle. Signed-off-by:
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
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Yuyang Du authored
The idea of runnable load average (let runnable time contribute to weight) was proposed by Paul Turner and Ben Segall, and it is still followed by this rewrite. This rewrite aims to solve the following issues: 1. cfs_rq's load average (namely runnable_load_avg and blocked_load_avg) is updated at the granularity of an entity at a time, which results in the cfs_rq's load average is stale or partially updated: at any time, only one entity is up to date, all other entities are effectively lagging behind. This is undesirable. To illustrate, if we have n runnable entities in the cfs_rq, as time elapses, they certainly become outdated: t0: cfs_rq { e1_old, e2_old, ..., en_old } and when we update: t1: update e1, then we have cfs_rq { e1_new, e2_old, ..., en_old } t2: update e2, then we have cfs_rq { e1_old, e2_new, ..., en_old } ... We solve this by combining all runnable entities' load averages together in cfs_rq's avg, and update the cfs_rq's avg as a whole. This is based on the fact that if we regard the update as a function, then: w * update(e) = update(w * e) and update(e1) + update(e2) = update(e1 + e2), then w1 * update(e1) + w2 * update(e2) = update(w1 * e1 + w2 * e2) therefore, by this rewrite, we have an entirely updated cfs_rq at the time we update it: t1: update cfs_rq { e1_new, e2_new, ..., en_new } t2: update cfs_rq { e1_new, e2_new, ..., en_new } ... 2. cfs_rq's load average is different between top rq->cfs_rq and other task_group's per CPU cfs_rqs in whether or not blocked_load_average contributes to the load. The basic idea behind runnable load average (the same for utilization) is that the blocked state is taken into account as opposed to only accounting for the currently runnable state. Therefore, the average should include both the runnable/running and blocked load averages. This rewrite does that. In addition, we also combine runnable/running and blocked averages of all entities into the cfs_rq's average, and update it together at once. This is based on the fact that: update(runnable) + update(blocked) = update(runnable + blocked) This significantly reduces the code as we don't need to separately maintain/update runnable/running load and blocked load. 3. How task_group entities' share is calculated is complex and imprecise. We reduce the complexity in this rewrite to allow a very simple rule: the task_group's load_avg is aggregated from its per CPU cfs_rqs's load_avgs. Then group entity's weight is simply proportional to its own cfs_rq's load_avg / task_group's load_avg. To illustrate, if a task_group has { cfs_rq1, cfs_rq2, ..., cfs_rqn }, then, task_group_avg = cfs_rq1_avg + cfs_rq2_avg + ... + cfs_rqn_avg, then cfs_rqx's entity's share = cfs_rqx_avg / task_group_avg * task_group's share To sum up, this rewrite in principle is equivalent to the current one, but fixes the issues described above. Turns out, it significantly reduces the code complexity and hence increases clarity and efficiency. In addition, the new averages are more smooth/continuous (no spurious spikes and valleys) and updated more consistently and quickly to reflect the load dynamics. As a result, we have less load tracking overhead, better performance, and especially better power efficiency due to more balanced load. Signed-off-by: -
Yuyang Du authored
The current rq->avg is not used at all since its merge into the kernel, and the code is in the scheduler's hot path, so remove it. Tested-by:
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
cpu_stop_park() does cpu_stop_signal_done() but leaves the work on stopper->works. The owner of this work can free/reuse this memory right after that and corrupt the list, so if this CPU becomes online again cpu_stopper_thread() will crash. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Cosmetic, but 'cpu_stop_fn_t' actually makes the code more readable and it doesn't break cscope. And most of the declarations already use it. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The only caller outside of stop_machine.c is _cpu_down(), it can use stop_machine(). get_online_cpus() is fine under cpu_hotplug_begin(). Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
queue_stop_cpus_work() can do everything in one for_each_cpu() loop. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Multpiple DEFINE_PER_CPU's do not make sense, move all the per-cpu variables into 'struct cpu_stopper'. Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
These functions check should_resched() before unlocking spinlock/bh-enable: preempt_count always non-zero => should_resched() always returns false. cond_resched_lock() worked iff spin_needbreak is set. This patch adds argument "preempt_offset" to should_resched(). preempt_count offset constants for that: PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET - offset after preempt_disable() PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET - offset after spin_lock() SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET - offset after local_bh_distable() SOFTIRQ_LOCK_OFFSET - offset after spin_lock_bh() Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
Function should_resched() is equal to (!preempt_count() && need_resched()). In preemptive kernel preempt_count here is non-zero because of vc->lock. Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
This code is used only when CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and only in non-atomic context: xen_in_preemptible_hcall is set only in privcmd_ioctl_hypercall(). Thus preempt_count is zero and should_resched() is equal to need_resched(). Signed-off-by:
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Mike Galbraith authored
Josef Bacik reported that Facebook sees better performance with their 1:N load (1 dispatch/node, N workers/node) when carrying an old patch to try very hard to wake to an idle CPU. While looking at wake_wide(), I noticed that it doesn't pay attention to the wakeup of a many partner waker, returning 1 only when waking one of its many partners. Correct that, letting explicit domain flags override the heuristic. While at it, adjust task_struct bits, we don't need a 64-bit counter. Tested-by:
Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> [ Tidy things up. ] Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Mathieu reported that since 317f3941 ("sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu") trace_sched_wakeup() can happen out of context of the waker. This is a problem when you want to analyse wakeup paths because it is now very hard to correlate the wakeup event to whoever issued the wakeup. OTOH trace_sched_wakeup() is issued at the point where we set p->state = TASK_RUNNING, which is right were we hand the task off to the scheduler, so this is an important point when looking at scheduling behaviour, up to here its been the wakeup path everything hereafter is due to scheduler policy. To bridge this gap, introduce a second tracepoint: trace_sched_waking. It is guaranteed to be called in the waker context. Reported-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
While the current code guarantees monotonicity for stime and utime independently of one another, it does not guarantee that the sum of both is equal to the total time we started out with. This confuses things (and peoples) who look at this sum, like top, and will report >100% usage followed by a matching period of 0%. Rework the code to provide both individual monotonicity and a coherent sum. Suggested-by:
Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com> Reported-by:
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Markus Elfring authored
The unregister_sysctl_table() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by:
Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
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Xunlei Pang authored
'p' has been already queued at this point, so "!task_running(rq, p)" and "p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1" imply that "has_pushable_dl_tasks(rq)" is true, so it can be removed. Signed-off-by:
Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435995563-3723-2-git-send-email-xlpang@126.comSigned-off-by:
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Xunlei Pang authored
'p' has been already queued at this point, so "!task_running(rq, p)" and "p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1" imply that "has_pushable_tasks(rq)" is true, so it can be removed. Signed-off-by:
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Yuyang Du authored
In idle balancing where a CPU going idle pulls tasks from another CPU, a livelock may happen if the CPU pulls all tasks from another, makes it idle, and this iterates. So just avoid this. Reported-by:
Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 21 Jul, 2015 1 commit
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Lucas Stach authored
Make sure to stop tracing only once we are past a point where all latency tracing events have been processed (irqs are not enabled again). This has the slight advantage of capturing more latency related events in the idle path, but most importantly it makes sure that latency tracing doesn't get re-enabled inadvertently when new events are coming in. This makes the irqsoff latency tracer useful again, as we stop capturing CPU sleep time as IRQ latency. Signed-off-by:
Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de Cc: patchwork-lst@pengutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437410090-3747-1-git-send-email-l.stach@pengutronix.deSigned-off-by:
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- 07 Jul, 2015 5 commits
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Byungchul Park authored
update_cfs_rq_load_contribution() was changed to __update_cfs_rq_tg_load_contrib() - sync up the commit in calc_tg_weight() too. Signed-off-by:
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436187062-19658-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.comSigned-off-by:
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Boqun Feng authored
Since commit: 4bf0b771 ("sched: remove do_div() from __sched_slice()") ... the logic of __sched_period() can be implemented as a single if-else without any local variables, so this patch cleans it up with an if-else statement, which expresses the function's logic straightforwardly. Signed-off-by:
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Srikar Dronamraju authored
This is consistent with all other load balancing instances where we absorb unfairness upto env->imbalance_pct. Absorbing unfairness upto env->imbalance_pct allows to pull and retain task to their preferred nodes. Signed-off-by:
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434455762-30857-3-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Srikar Dronamraju authored
The current load balancer may not try to prevent a task from moving out of a preferred node to a less preferred node. The reason for this being: - Since sched features NUMA and NUMA_RESIST_LOWER are disabled by default, migrate_degrades_locality() always returns false. - Even if NUMA_RESIST_LOWER were to be enabled, if its cache hot, migrate_degrades_locality() never gets called. The above behaviour can mean that tasks can move out of their preferred node but they may be eventually be brought back to their preferred node by numa balancer (due to higher numa faults). To avoid the above, this commit merges migrate_degrades_locality() and migrate_improves_locality(). It also replaces 3 sched features NUMA, NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER and NUMA_RESIST_LOWER by a single sched feature NUMA. Signed-off-by:
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bsegall@google.com authored
migrate_improves_locality checked sched_feat(NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER) but not sched_feat(NUMA), so disabling just the NUMA feature would leave it working off of old data. Signed-off-by:
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 06 Jul, 2015 1 commit
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Cong Wang authored
According to the comments, we need to test if this is the first throttled task, however, list_empty() tests on the entry cfs_rq->throttled_list, not the head, this is wrong. This is a bug because we don't re-init the list entry after removing it from the list, so list_empty() could return false even if the list is really empty. Signed-off-by:
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 05 Jul, 2015 6 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o: "Bug fixes (all for stable kernels) for ext4: - address corner cases for indirect blocks->extent migration - fix reserved block accounting invalidate_page when page_size != block_size (i.e., ppc or 1k block size file systems) - fix deadlocks when a memcg is under heavy memory pressure - fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization" * tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: replace open coded nofail allocation in ext4_free_blocks() ext4: correctly migrate a file with a hole at the beginning ext4: be more strict when migrating to non-extent based file ext4: fix reservation release on invalidatepage for delalloc fs ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk() ext4: fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization -
Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86 Pull late x86 platform driver updates from Darren Hart: "The following came in a bit later and I wanted them to bake in next a few more days before submitting, thus the second pull. A new intel_pmc_ipc driver, a symmetrical allocation and free fix in dell-laptop, a couple minor fixes, and some updated documentation in the dell-laptop comments. intel_pmc_ipc: - Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver tc1100-wmi: - Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" dell-laptop: - Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page - Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs - Update information about wireless control" * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver tc1100-wmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" dell-laptop: Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page dell-laptop: Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs dell-laptop: Update information about wireless control
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Michal Hocko authored
ext4_free_blocks is looping around the allocation request and mimics __GFP_NOFAIL behavior without any allocation fallback strategy. Let's remove the open coded loop and replace it with __GFP_NOFAIL. Without the flag the allocator has no way to find out never-fail requirement and cannot help in any way. Signed-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes. fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work" [ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ] * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits) 9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write} p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req() 9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache dax: Add block size note to documentation fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install() fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino namei: make set_root_rcu() return void make simple_positive() public ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages() pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there remove the pointless include of lglock.h fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 835a6a2f ("Bluetooth: Stop sabotaging list poisoning") thought that the code was sabotaging the list poisoning when NULL'ing out the list pointers and removed it. But what was going on was that the bluetooth code was using NULL pointers for the list as a way to mark it empty, and that commit just broke it (and replaced the test with NULL with a "list_empty()" test on a uninitialized list instead, breaking things even further). So fix it all up to use the regular and real list_empty() handling (which does not use NULL, but a pointer to itself), also making sure to initialize the list properly (the previous NULL case was initialized implicitly by the session being allocated with kzalloc()) This is a combination of patches by Marcel Holtmann and Tedd Ho-Jeong An. [ I would normally expect to get this through the bt tree, but I'm going to release -rc1, so I'm just committing this directly - Linus ] Reported-and-tested-by:
Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Original-by:
Tedd Ho-Jeong An <tedd.an@intel.com> Original-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>: Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 04 Jul, 2015 2 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pendingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger: "It's been a busy development cycle for target-core in a number of different areas. The fabric API usage for se_node_acl allocation is now within target-core code, dropping the external API callers for all fabric drivers tree-wide. There is a new conversion to RCU hlists for se_node_acl and se_portal_group LUN mappings, that turns fast-past LUN lookup into a completely lockless code-path. It also removes the original hard-coded limitation of 256 LUNs per fabric endpoint. The configfs attributes for backends can now be shared between core and driver code, allowing existing drivers to use common code while still allowing flexibility for new backend provided attributes. The highlights include: - Merge sbc_verify_dif_* into common code (sagi) - Remove iscsi-target support for obsolete IFMarker/OFMarker (Christophe Vu-Brugier) - Add bidi support in target/user backend (ilias + vangelis + agover) - Move se_node_acl allocation into target-core code (hch) - Add crc_t10dif_update common helper (akinobu + mkp) - Handle target-core odd SGL mapping for data transfer memory (akinobu) - Move transport ID handling into target-core (hch) - Move task tag into struct se_cmd + support 64-bit tags (bart) - Convert se_node_acl->device_list[] to RCU hlist (nab + hch + paulmck) - Convert se_portal_group->tpg_lun_list[] to RCU hlist (nab + hch + paulmck) - Simplify target backend driver registration (hch) - Consolidate + simplify target backend attribute implementations (hch + nab) - Subsume se_port + t10_alua_tg_pt_gp_member into se_lun (hch) - Drop lun_sep_lock for se_lun->lun_se_dev RCU usage (hch + nab) - Drop unnecessary core_tpg_register TFO parameter (nab) - Use 64-bit LUNs tree-wide (hannes) - Drop left-over TARGET_MAX_LUNS_PER_TRANSPORT limit (hannes)" * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (76 commits) target: Bump core version to v5.0 target: remove target_core_configfs.h target: remove unused TARGET_CORE_CONFIG_ROOT define target: consolidate version defines target: implement WRITE_SAME with UNMAP bit using ->execute_unmap target: simplify UNMAP handling target: replace se_cmd->execute_rw with a protocol_data field target/user: Fix inconsistent kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic target: Send UA when changing LUN inventory target: Send UA upon LUN RESET tmr completion target: Send UA on ALUA target port group change target: Convert se_lun->lun_deve_lock to normal spinlock target: use 'se_dev_entry' when allocating UAs target: Remove 'ua_nacl' pointer from se_ua structure target_core_alua: Correct UA handling when switching states xen-scsiback: Fix compile warning for 64-bit LUN target: Remove TARGET_MAX_LUNS_PER_TRANSPORT target: use 64-bit LUNs target: Drop duplicate + unused se_dev_check_wce target: Drop unnecessary core_tpg_register TFO parameter ... -
git://github.com/jonmason/ntbLinus Torvalds authored
Pull NTB updates from Jon Mason: "This includes a pretty significant reworking of the NTB core code, but has already produced some significant performance improvements. An abstraction layer was added to allow the hardware and clients to be easily added. This required rewriting the NTB transport layer for this abstraction layer. This modification will allow future "high performance" NTB clients. In addition to this change, a number of performance modifications were added. These changes include NUMA enablement, using CPU memcpy instead of asyncdma, and modification of NTB layer MTU size" * tag 'ntb-4.2' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb: (22 commits) NTB: Add split BAR output for debugfs stats NTB: Change WARN_ON_ONCE to pr_warn_once on unsafe NTB: Print driver name and version in module init NTB: Increase transport MTU to 64k from 16k NTB: Rename Intel code names to platform names NTB: Default to CPU memcpy for performance NTB: Improve performance with write combining NTB: Use NUMA memory in Intel driver NTB: Use NUMA memory and DMA chan in transport NTB: Rate limit ntb_qp_link_work NTB: Add tool test client NTB: Add ping pong test client NTB: Add parameters for Intel SNB B2B addresses NTB: Reset transport QP link stats on down NTB: Do not advance transport RX on link down NTB: Differentiate transport link down messages NTB: Check the device ID to set errata flags NTB: Enable link for Intel root port mode in probe NTB: Read peer info from local SPAD in transport NTB: Split ntb_hw_intel and ntb_transport drivers ...
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