- 09 Sep, 2005 40 commits
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
Fix v9fs special files (block, char devices) support. Signed-off-by:
Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by:
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
Cleanup code in v9fs vfs_inode as suggested by Alexey Dobriyan. Did some major revamping of the v9fs setattr code to remove unnecessary allocations and clean up some dead-code. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
Change magic error numbers to system defined constants in v9fs error.h As suggested by Jan-Benedict Glaw. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
This part of the patch contains debug and other misc routines. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
Support for force umount Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
This part of the patch contains transport routines. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
This part of the patch contains the 9P protocol functions. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
This part of the patch contains VFS superblock and mapping code. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
This part of the patch contains the VFS inode interfaces. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
This part of the patch contains the VFS file, dentry & directory interfaces. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Van Hensbergen authored
OVERVIEW V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P. It can be used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers (such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as FUSE). BACKGROUND Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++. Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and 2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public License in 2003. The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985. Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing. Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an environment to use remote application components or services in place of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command line instructions. For the most part, application implementations operated independent of the location of their actual resources. Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by the use of different complicated protocols for individual services, and separate implementations for kernel and application resources. The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing protocol. V9FS HISTORY V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997. In November of 2001, Greg Watson setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which supported the Linux 2.4 kernel. About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5 kernel. I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style guidelines. I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005 conference in April 2005: ( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing its integration into the official kernel tree. We would appreciate any review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community. STATUS The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases our regression tests haven't discovered yet. It is in regular use by several of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC (32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments. Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark. It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the protocol support versus a rich set of features. For example: a more complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but excluded from this release. Additionally, we have removed support for mmap operations at Al Viro's request. PERFORMANCE Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark. Somewhat preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html). RESOURCES The source code is available in a few different forms: tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/ CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org) 9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564 The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution or from http://v9fs.sf.net Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary version can be downloaded from sourceforge. Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc). There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration file changes. Signed-off-by:
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Dipankar Sarma authored
Add documentation describing the new locking scheme for file descriptor table. Signed-off-by:
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dipankar Sarma authored
With the use of RCU in files structure, the look-up of files using fds can now be lock-free. The lookup is protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(). This patch changes the readers to use lock-free lookup. Signed-off-by:
Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dipankar Sarma authored
Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter. The updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and setting files->fdt to point to the new structure. The fdtable structure is protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup. For fd arrays/sets that are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep. A global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list. If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer queueing of that work. Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference() premitives instead. This required that the fd information is kept in a separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically. Signed-off-by:
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Dipankar Sarma authored
Fix sparc64 timod to use the new files_fdtable() api to get the fd table. This is necessary for RCUification. Signed-off-by:
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Dipankar Sarma authored
In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must be updated atomically. Instead of ensuring this through too many memory barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure. This patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct. It also changes all the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro. Subsequent applciation of RCU becomes easier after this. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dipankar Sarma authored
Adds a set of primitives to do reference counting for objects that are looked up without locks using RCU. Signed-off-by:
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Dipankar Sarma authored
First of a number of files_lock scaability patches. Here are the x86 numbers - tiobench on a 4(8)-way (HT) P4 system on ramdisk : (lockfree) Test 2.6.10-vanilla Stdev 2.6.10-fd Stdev ------------------------------------------------------------- Seqread 1400.8 11.52 1465.4 34.27 Randread 1594 8.86 2397.2 29.21 Seqwrite 242.72 3.47 238.46 6.53 Randwrite 445.74 9.15 446.4 9.75 The performance improvement is very significant. We are getting killed by the cacheline bouncing of the files_struct lock here. Writes on ramdisk (ext2) seems to vary just too much to get any meaningful number. Also, With Tridge's thread_perf test on a 4(8)-way (HT) P4 xeon system : 2.6.12-rc5-vanilla : Running test 'readwrite' with 8 tasks Threads 0.34 +/- 0.01 seconds Processes 0.16 +/- 0.00 seconds 2.6.12-rc5-fd : Running test 'readwrite' with 8 tasks Threads 0.17 +/- 0.02 seconds Processes 0.17 +/- 0.02 seconds I repeated the measurements on ramfs (as opposed to ext2 on ramdisk in the earlier measurement) and I got more consistent results from tiobench : 4(8) way xeon P4 ----------------- (lock-free) Test 2.6.12-rc5 Stdev 2.6.12-rc5-fd Stdev ------------------------------------------------------------- Seqread 1282 18.59 1343.6 26.37 Randread 1517 7 2415 34.27 Seqwrite 702.2 5.27 709.46 5.9 Randwrite 846.86 15.15 919.68 21.4 4-way ppc64 ------------ (lock-free) Test 2.6.12-rc5 Stdev 2.6.12-rc5-fd Stdev ------------------------------------------------------------- Seqread 1549 91.16 1569.6 47.2 Randread 1473.6 25.11 1585.4 69.99 Seqwrite 1096.8 20.03 1136 29.61 Randwrite 1189.6 4.04 1275.2 32.96 Also running Tridge's thread_perf test on ppc64 : 2.6.12-rc5-vanilla -------------------- Running test 'readwrite' with 4 tasks Threads 0.20 +/- 0.02 seconds Processes 0.16 +/- 0.01 seconds 2.6.12-rc5-fd -------------------- Running test 'readwrite' with 4 tasks Threads 0.18 +/- 0.04 seconds Processes 0.16 +/- 0.01 seconds The benefits are huge (upto ~60%) in some cases on x86 primarily due to the atomic operations during acquisition of ->file_lock and cache line bouncing in fast path. ppc64 benefits are modest due to LL/SC based locking, but still statistically significant. This patch: RCU head initilizer no longer needs the head varible name since we don't use list.h lists anymore. Signed-off-by: -
Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- tveeprom improved and updated to reflect newer Hauppage cards. - CodingStyle fixes. Signed-off-by:
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- adds the adapter number + i2c address to printk msgs. - Some CodingStyle cleanups. Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Removed kernel version dependency from tea575x-tuner.h Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Include saa6588 compiler option and files. - Fix comment on tuner.h - linux/utsname.h replaced by linux/version.h to compile on vanilla 2.6.13 Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Makes the input event device created by the V4L drivers for the infrared remote matchable by udev rules. Signed-off-by:
Rudo Thomas <rudo@matfyz.cz> Signed-off-by:
Michael Fair <michael@daclubhouse.net> Signed-off-by:
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- added some missing parameter descriptions at msp3400.c Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- print warning if pal= or secam= argument is unrecognized Signed-off-by:
Philip Rowlands <phr@doc.ic.ac.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- correct the amux for composite and s-video inputs on the Sabrent SBT-TVFM card. Signed-off-by:
Michael Rodriquez-Torrent <mike@themikecam.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- #include <linux/config.h> no longer needed. Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- The Microtune 4049FM5 uses an IF frequency of 33.3 MHz for FM radio. Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Some error treatment implemented at resume functions. Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Change LG TDVS H062F from NTSC to ATSC. Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- normalize whitespace and comments in tuner lists Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- cx88-dvb has been incorrectly reporting the card name instead of frontend name - Removes a bad PCI subsystem ID for saa713x Sabrent card - Renames DVICO --> DViCO for bttv. - #include <linux/config.h> no longer needed. Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Add saa713x card #66: Yuan TUN-900 (saa7135) Signed-off-by:
De Greef Sebastien <sebdg@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Add saa713x card #65 Kworld V-Stream Studio TV Terminator Signed-off-by:
James R Webb <jrwebb@qwest.net> Signed-off-by:
Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by:
Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- correct LG NTSC TALN mini tuner takeover as far we can empirically determine for now. Signed-off-by:
Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Syncs tveeprom tuners list with the list from ivtv. - Fixes the incorrect reporting of the radio presence. Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Changes the prefix to 'msp34xx' instead of 'msp3400'. - Changes the message 'error while reading chip version' to a debug printk at msp3400.c Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h - Add new Digimatrix card and LG TAPC Mini tuner for it Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - add ioctl indirection via cx88_ioctl_hook and cx88_ioctl_translator to cx88-blackbird.c. - declare the indirection hooks from cx88-blackbird.c. - dcprintk macro which uses core instead of dev->core on cx88-video.c. - replace dev->core occurances with core on cx88-video.c. - CodingStyle fixes. - MaxInput replaced by a define. - cx8801 structures moved from cx88.h. - The output_mode needs to be set for the Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T for versions after 2.6.12. - Corrected GPIO values for cx88 cards #28 & #31 for s-video and composite. - Updated DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold & added DVB support. - Fixed DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold-Q GPIO. - Some clean up in cx88-tvaudio.c - replaced hex values when writing to AUD_CTL to EN_xx for better reading. - Allow select by hand between Mono, Lang1, Lang2 and Stereo for BTSC. - Support for stereo NICAM and BTSC improved. - Broken stereo check removed. - Added support for remote control to Cinergy DVBT-1400. - local var renamed from rc5 to a better name (ircode). - LGDT330X QAM lock bug fixes. - Some reorg: move some bits to struct cx88_core, factor out common ioctl's to cx88_do_ioctl. - Get rid of '//' comments, replace them with #if 0 and /**/. - Minor clean-ups: remove dcprintk and replace all instances of "dev->core" with "core". - Added some registers to control PCI controller at CX2388x chips. - New tuner standby API. - Small mpeg fixes and cleanups for blackbird. - fix mpeg packet size & count - add VIDIOC_QUERYCAP ioctl for the mpeg stream - return more information in struct v4l2_format - fix default window height - small cleanups Signed-off-by:
Uli Luckas <luckas@musoft.de> Signed-off-by:
Torsten Seeboth <Torsten.Seeboth@t-online.de> Signed-off-by:
Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@desy.de> Signed-off-by:
Catalin Climov <catalin@climov.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - Added DVICO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card. - Added Acorp Y878F. - CodingStyle fixes. - Added tuner_addr to bttv cards structure. - linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h on bttvp.h - kernel module for acquiring RDS data from a SAA6588. - Allow multiple open() and reading calls to /dev/radio on bttv-driver.c - added i2c address for lgdt330x. Signed-off-by:
Hans J. Koch <koch@hjk-az.de> Signed-off-by:
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