arm: vfpmodule: Fix warning procfs vfp_bounce reporting failed
vfp: makefile: hard float is used so change flag accordingly
Kernel Version: ak.035_b05.opo.cm11
ext4: Speedup WB_SYNC_ALL pass called from sync(2)

When doing filesystem wide sync, there's no need to force transaction
commit (or synchronously write inode buffer) separately for each inode
because ext4_sync_fs() takes care of forcing commit at the end (VFS
takes care of flushing buffer cache, respectively). Most of the time
this slowness doesn't manifest because previous WB_SYNC_NONE writeback
doesn't leave much to write but when there are processes aggressively
creating new files and several filesystems to sync, the sync slowness
can be noticeable. In the following test script sync(1) takes around 6
minutes when there are two ext4 filesystems mounted on a standard SATA
drive. After this patch sync takes a couple of seconds so we have about
two orders of magnitude improvement.

      function run_writers
      {
        for (( i = 0; i < 10; i++ )); do
          mkdir $1/dir$i
          for (( j = 0; j < 40000; j++ )); do
            dd if=/dev/zero of=$1/dir$i/$j bs=4k count=4 &>/dev/null
          done &
        done
      }

      for dir in "$@"; do
        run_writers $dir
      done

      sleep 40
      time sync

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4: speed up truncate/unlink by not using bforget() unless needed

Do not iterate over data blocks scanning for bh's to forget as they're
never exist. This improves time taken by unlink / truncate syscall.
Tested by continuously truncating file that is being written by dd.
Another test is rm -rf of linux tree while tar unpacks it. With
ordered data mode condition unlikely(!tbh) was always met in
ext4_free_blocks. With journal data mode tbh was found only few times,
so optimisation is also possible.

Unlinking fallocated 60G file after doing sync && echo 3 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && time rm --help

X86 before (linux 3.6-rc4):
# time rm -f test1
real    0m2.710s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m1.530s

X86 after:
# time rm -f test1
real    0m0.644s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.060s

MIPS before (linux 2.6.37):
# time rm -f test1
real    0m 4.93s
user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 4.61s

MIPS after:
# time rm -f test1
real    0m 0.16s
user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 0.06s

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Sidorov <qrxd43@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
af_unix: speedup /proc/net/unix

/proc/net/unix has quadratic behavior, and can hold unix_table_lock for
a while if high number of unix sockets are alive. (90 ms for 200k
sockets...)

We already have a hash table, so its quite easy to use it.

Problem is unbound sockets are still hashed in a single hash slot
(unix_socket_table[UNIX_HASH_TABLE])

This patch also spreads unbound sockets to 256 hash slots, to speedup
both /proc/net/unix and unix_diag.

Time to read /proc/net/unix with 200k unix sockets :
(time dd if=/proc/net/unix of=/dev/null bs=4k)

before : 520 secs
after : 2 secs

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
jbd2: optimize jbd2_journal_force_commit

Current implementation of jbd2_journal_force_commit() is suboptimal because
result in empty and useless commits. But callers just want to force and wait
any unfinished commits. We already have jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested()
which does exactly what we want, except we are guaranteed that we do not hold
journal transaction open.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
net: loopback: set default mtu to 64K

loopback current mtu of 16436 bytes allows no more than 3 MSS TCP
segments per frame, or 48 Kbytes. Changing mtu to 64K allows TCP
stack to build large frames and significantly reduces stack overhead.

Performance boost on bulk TCP transferts can be up to 30 %, partly
because we now have one ACK message for two 64KB segments, and a lower
probability of hitting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_reordering default limit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
tcp: set TCP_DEFAULT_INIT_RCVWND to 16

See "An Argument for Increasing TCP's Initial Congestion Window"
in https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/tcp_initcwnd_paper.pdf
tcp: network speed tweak

Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
prima: reduce rx wakelock
block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available

In case a device has three tags available we still reserve two of them
for sync IO. That leaves only a single tag for async IO such as
writeback from flusher thread which results in poor performance.

Allow async IO to consume two tags in case queue has three tag availabe
to get a decent async write performance.

This patch improves streaming write performance on a machine with such disk
from ~21 MB/s to ~52 MB/s. Also postmark throughput in presence of
streaming writer improves from 8 to 12 transactions per second so sync
IO doesn't seem to be harmed in presence of heavy async writer.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
timer: optimize apply_slack()

__fls(mask) is equivalent to find_last_bit(&mask, BITS_PER_LONG), but cheaper.
find_last_bit was showing up high on the list when I was profiling for stalls
on icache misses on a system with very small cache size (MIPS).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Kernel Version: ak.035_b06.opo.cm11
ARM: 7461/1: topology: Add arch_scale_freq_power function

Add infrastructure to be able to modify the cpu_power of each core

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
ARM: 7462/1: topology: factorize the update of sibling masks

This factorization has also been proposed in another patch that has not been
merged yet:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-January/080873.html
So, this patch could be dropped depending of the state of the other one.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
ARM: 7463/1: topology: Update cpu_power according to DT information

Use cpu compatibility field and clock-frequency field of DT to
estimate the capacity of each core of the system and to update
the cpu_power field accordingly.
This patch enables to put more running tasks on big cores than
on LITTLE ones. But this patch doesn't ensure that long running
tasks will run on big cores and short ones on LITTLE cores.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
ARM: 7482/1: topology: fix section mismatch warning for init_cpu_topology

Get rid of this warning..
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xac78): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_cpu_topology() to the function
 .init.text:parse_dt_topology()
The function init_cpu_topology() references
the function __init parse_dt_topology().
This is often because init_cpu_topology lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of parse_dt_topology is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Venkatraman S <svenkatr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
ARM: kernel: enhance MPIDR macro definitions

Kernel subsystems other than the topology layer need the MPIDR
mask definitions to access the MPIDR without relying on hardcoded
masks. This patch moves the MPIDR register masks definition to
a header file and defines a macro to simplify access to MPIDR bit fields
representing affinity levels.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
ARM: kernel: update topology to use new MPIDR macros

This patch updates the topology initialization code to use the newly
defined accessors to retrieve the MPIDR affinity levels.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>