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Andrew Morton
a5453be48e [PATCH] bio_clone fix
Fix bug introduced in 2.6.11-rc2: when we clone a BIO we need to copy over the
current index into it as well.

It corrupts data with some MD setups.

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4946

Huuuuuuuuge thanks to Matthew Stapleton <matthew4196@gmail.com> for doggedly
chasing this one down.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 08:38:59 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
6c036527a6 [PATCH] mostly_read data section
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.  In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
James Bottomley
f1970baf6d [PATCH] Add scatter-gather support for the block layer SG_IO
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-06-20 14:06:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b823825e8e [PATCH] Keep the bio end_io parts inside of bio.c for blk_rq_map_kern()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-06-20 14:05:27 +02:00
Mike Christie
df46b9a44c [PATCH] Add blk_rq_map_kern()
Add blk_rq_map_kern which takes a kernel buffer and maps it into
a request and bio. This can be used by the dm hw_handlers, old
sg_scsi_ioctl, and one day scsi special requests so all requests
comming into scsi will have bios. All requests having bios
should allow scsi to use scatter lists for all IO and allow it
to use block layer functions.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-06-20 14:04:44 +02:00
Martin Waitz
67be2dd1ba [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions
Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.
No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00