From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752659AbXA3K0S (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:26:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752661AbXA3K0R (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:26:17 -0500 Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:39353 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752659AbXA3K0Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:26:16 -0500 Message-Id: <20070130101143.296619000@bull.net> User-Agent: quilt/0.45-1 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:11:43 +0100 From: Nadia.Derbey@bull.net To: akpm@osdl.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/6] AKT - Automatic Kernel Tunables Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Re-sending the series of patches for the automatic kernel tunables feature: have done some fixes after the remarks sent back by Andrew and Randy. 1) All the type independent macros have been removed, except for the automatic tuning routine: it manages pointers to the tunable and to the value to be checked against that tunable, so it should rmain type independent IMHO. Now, I only left the auto-tuning routines for types int and size_t since these are the types of the tunables the framework is applied to. It will be easy to add the other types as needed in the future. This makes the code much lighter. 2) CONFIG_AKT has been moved from the FS menu to the "general setup" one. + all the other minor changes. --- Reminder This is a series of patches that introduces a feature that makes the kernel automatically change the tunables values as it sees resources running out. The AKT framework is made of 2 parts: 1) Kernel part: Interfaces are provided to the kernel subsystems, to (un)register the tunables that might be automatically tuned in the future. Registering a tunable consists in the following steps: - a structure is declared and filled by the kernel subsystem for the registered tunable - that tunable structure is registered into sysfs Registration should be done during the kernel subsystem initialization step. Another interface is provided to the kernel subsystems, to activate the automatic tuning for a registered tunable. It can be called during resource allocation to tune up, and during resource freeing to tune down the registered tunable. The automatic tuning routine is called only if the tunable has been enabled to be automatically tuning in sysfs. 2) User part: AKT uses sysfs to enable the tunables management from the user world (mainly making them automatic or manual). akt uses sysfs in the following way: - a tunables subsystem (tunables_subsys) is declared and registered during akt initialization. - registering a tunable is equivalent to registering the corresponding kobject within that subsystem. - each tunable kobject has 3 associated attributes, all with a RW mode (i.e. the show() and store() methods are provided for them): . autotune: enables to (de)activate automatic tuning for the tunable . max: enables to set a new maximum value for the tunable . min: enables to set a new minimum value for the tunable The only way to activate automatic tuning is from user side: - the directory /sys/tunables is created during the init phase. - each time a tunable is registered by a kernel subsystem, a directory is created for it under /sys/tunables. - This directory contains 1 file for each tunable kobject attribute These patches should be applied to 2.6.20-rc4, in the following order: [PATCH 1/6]: tunables_registration.patch [PATCH 2/6]: auto_tuning_activation.patch [PATCH 3/6]: auto_tuning_kobjects.patch [PATCH 4/6]: tunable_min_max_kobjects.patch [PATCH 5/6]: per_namespace_tunables.patch [PATCH 6/6]: auto_tune_applied.patch --