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2012-04-25 Thread Jessica Wang
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RE: [PATCH] fsldma: fix performance degradation by optimizing spinlock use.

2012-04-25 Thread Li Yang-R58472
Hi Dan and Vinod, Please help to pick this patch up. It addresses a great performance regression for RAID offloading. Acked-by: Li Yang - Leo > -Original Message- > From: Shi Xuelin-B29237 > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:04 AM > To: dan.j.willi...@intel.com > Cc: vinod.k...@intel

RE: [PATCH] fsldma: fix performance degradation by optimizing spinlock use.

2012-04-25 Thread Shi Xuelin-B29237
Hi Dan Williams, Do you have any comment about this patch? Thanks, Forrest -Original Message- From: Ira W. Snyder [mailto:i...@ovro.caltech.edu] Sent: 2012年1月12日 0:14 To: Shi Xuelin-B29237 Cc: vinod.k...@intel.com; dan.j.willi...@intel.com; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; linux-ker...@v

Re: [PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates

2012-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 23:54 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > This fuzzing is what makes it much more annoying. > Interesting, I didn't think that couple of percent of pwm would be noticable (there's probably too much ambiant noise in the lab here for me to notice). What if you just comment out t

Re: [PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates

2012-04-25 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > Constant or changing ? The slots fan is set to a fixed speed, which I > thought was constant (well, I "tickle" it a bit but roughly it's > constant). This fuzzing is what makes it much more annoying. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fi

Re: Regression in 32-bit ppc kernel

2012-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 10:00 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > After a few tries, I managed to change over to pata_macio. > Fortunately, most of > the system used dev-by-id or UUID, thus most of the process was > getting all the > kernel pieces built in. > > Unfortunately, the original problem rema

Re: [PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates

2012-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 12:29 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > Also, does the new driver properly react to load ? > > The old driver keeps the cpu fans running at 300 rpm (lowest speed?) > for much longer when the cpus are put busy. Only when the cpus are back >

[PATCH 08/10] powerpc/ps3: Minor Kconfig cleanup

2012-04-25 Thread Geoff Levand
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand --- arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/Kconfig |8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/Kconfig index b72425a..46b7f02 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/Kconfig +++ b/a

[PATCH 10/10] powerpc/ps3: Refresh ps3_defconfig

2012-04-25 Thread Geoff Levand
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand --- arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig |6 -- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig index ded8678..c2f4b4a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs

[PATCH 03/10] powerpc/ps3: Add highmem repository write routines

2012-04-25 Thread Geoff Levand
Add routines to allow Linux based bootloaders to create and/or modify highmem region info in the PS3 system repository where it can be retrived by later boot stages. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand --- arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/platform.h |9 arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c | 7

[PATCH 09/10] drivers/ps3: Fix checkpatch warnings in ps3av.c

2012-04-25 Thread Valentin Ilie
Signed-off-by: Valentin Ilie Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand --- drivers/ps3/ps3av.c | 24 +--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ps3/ps3av.c b/drivers/ps3/ps3av.c index a409fa0..93d0a8b 100644 --- a/drivers/ps3/ps3av

[PATCH 02/10] powerpc/ps3: Add PS3 repository write support

2012-04-25 Thread Geoff Levand
Add a new config option CONFIG_PS3_REPOSITORY_WRITE that conditionally builds in support to create, write and delete nodes in the PS3 system repository. This support will allow Linux based bootloaders to manage data in the system repository for use by later boot stages, Signed-off-by: Geoff Levan

[PATCH 07/10] powerpc/ps3: Remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG requirement

2012-04-25 Thread Andre Heider
The dependency on hotplug memory was removed, so remove the dependency in the Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Andre Heider Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand --- arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/Kconfig |1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platform

[GIT PULL] PS3 updates for Linux-3.5

2012-04-25 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi Ben, I queued up the PS3 updates I have for v3.5. Please pull. -Geoff The following changes since commit 66f75a5d028beaf67c931435fdc3e7823125730c: Linux 3.4-rc4 (2012-04-21 14:47:52 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-

[PATCH 06/10] powerpc/ps3: Add highmem region memory early

2012-04-25 Thread Hector Martin
Real mode memory can be limited and runs out quickly as memory is allocated during kernel startup. Having the highmem available sooner fixes this. This change simplifies the memory management code by converting from hotplug memory to logical memory blocks. Signed-off-by: Hector Martin Signed-of

[PATCH 04/10] powerpc/ps3: Add highmem repository read routines

2012-04-25 Thread Andre Heider
Add repository helper routines to read highmem region info. Bootloaders that preallocate highmem regions must place the region info into the repository at these well known nodes. These routines allow second stage kernles to read the region info from those nodes. Signed-off-by: Andre Heider CC: N

[PATCH 01/10] powerpc/ps3: Correct lv1 repository routine names

2012-04-25 Thread Geoff Levand
Rename these repo routines: modify_repository_node_value => write_repository_node remove_repository_node => delete_repository_node Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/lv1call.h |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/inclu

[PATCH 05/10] powerpc/ps3: Use highmem region from repository

2012-04-25 Thread Andre Heider
Use any preallocated highmem region setup by the bootloader. This implementation only checks for the existance of a single region at region_index=0. This feature allows the bootloader to preallocate highmem regions and pass the region locations to the kernel through the repository. Preallocated r

Re: Regression in 32-bit ppc kernel

2012-04-25 Thread Larry Finger
On 04/24/2012 11:11 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Somewhere between v3.2 and v3.3, the kernel in my Powerbook G4 started issuing the following traceback on bootup: Does it continue working afterward or not at all ? Are you using the

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kdump support for 47x

2012-04-25 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > On 04/16/2012 01:56 PM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: >> >> The following series implements Kexec/Kdump support for >> PPC_47x based platforms. Doesn't support SMP yet. >> >> I have tested these patches on the following simulators: >>        

Re: [PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates

2012-04-25 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > Also, does the new driver properly react to load ? The old driver keeps the cpu fans running at 300 rpm (lowest speed?) for much longer when the cpus are put busy. Only when the cpus are back idle it speeds them up to 1200 rpm or more for some time depending on

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kdump support for 47x

2012-04-25 Thread Suzuki K. Poulose
On 04/16/2012 01:56 PM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: The following series implements Kexec/Kdump support for PPC_47x based platforms. Doesn't support SMP yet. I have tested these patches on the following simulators: 1) simics 2) IBM ISS for ppc476. Changes since V1: * Initialize

Re: [PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates

2012-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 10:00 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > The biggest change is that windfarm is ported to generally use > > the new model, and I've written a new set of windfarm modules to > > take over from the old therm_pm72 (which was mostly unfixable) >

Re: [PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates

2012-04-25 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > The biggest change is that windfarm is ported to generally use > the new model, and I've written a new set of windfarm modules to > take over from the old therm_pm72 (which was mostly unfixable) > on the PowerMac G5 AGP and Xserve G5 machines. I have the impressi