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  1. Dec 12, 2009
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  3. Dec 04, 2009
  4. Nov 26, 2009
    • Ilya Loginov's avatar
      block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages · 2d4dc890
      Ilya Loginov authored
      
      Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
      this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
      the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.
      
      The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
      pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
      flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
      flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
      equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
      
      See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
      on LKML for more information.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
      Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      2d4dc890
  5. Oct 15, 2009
  6. Oct 13, 2009
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall · a2e27255
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      
      Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
      net stack entry/exit operations.
      
      Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
      optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.
      
      This takes into account comments made by:
      
      . Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram,
        sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest.
      
      . Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that
        works in the same fashion as the ppoll one.
      
        If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this
        will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB
        one) it has received so far.
      
      . Rémi Denis-Courmont & Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N < vlen
        datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return
        the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it
        in the next call.
      
      This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot->unlocked_recvmsg,
      where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at
      every underlying recvmsg call.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a2e27255
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