(Sorry for delay, recent absences, but all been in linux-next a week now) The following changes since commit 2fdc246aaf9a7fa088451ad2a72e9119b5f7f029: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../bp/bp are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git master Christian Borntraeger (1): virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.h Christoph Hellwig (1): virtio_blk: revert QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT addition Rusty Russell (1): virtio_blk: Revert serial number support Uwe Kleine-K?nig (2): move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.text move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 1 - drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 39 ++-------------------------------- drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 3 +- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 1 - drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 1 - drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 3 +- include/linux/Kbuild | 1 + include/linux/virtio_9p.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_blk.h | 5 +--- include/linux/virtio_console.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_net.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_rng.h | 1 + net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 1 - 14 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) commit d5a01175aa25ef30a99545f09e0a2828a226d3cd Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> Date: Fri Sep 4 22:44:42 2009 +0200 virtio_blk: revert QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT addition It seems like the addition of QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT caueses major performance regressions for Fedora users: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509383 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505695 while I can't reproduce those extreme regressions myself I think the flag is wrong. Rationale: QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT expands to QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT which casus the queue unplugged immediately. This is not a good behaviour for at least qemu and kvm where we do have significant overhead for every I/O operations. Even with all the latested speeups (native AIO, MSI support, zero copy) we can only get native speed for up to 128kb I/O requests we already are down to 66% of native performance for 4kb requests even on my laptop running the Intel X25-M SSD for which the QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT was designed. If we ever get virtio-blk overhead low enough that this flag makes sense it should only be set based on a feature flag set by the host. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) commit 6ff87d1f188f65a51c28595e9ad16183cbd58d94 Author: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com> Date: Wed Sep 30 11:17:21 2009 +0200 virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.h Rusty, commit 3ca4f5ca73057a617f9444a91022d7127041970a virtio: add virtio IDs file moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h does not include virtio_ids.h. This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C files into the header files, making the header files compatible with the old ones. In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace. CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando at oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 1 - drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 1 - drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 1 - drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 1 - drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 1 - drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 1 - include/linux/Kbuild | 1 + include/linux/virtio_9p.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_blk.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_console.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_net.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio_rng.h | 1 + net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 1 - 14 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) commit ef728ac6296b8ae36791c7644e92b7bc75c0fd88 Author: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> Date: Mon Oct 19 12:58:28 2009 -0600 virtio_blk: Revert serial number support This reverts "Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a". Turns out that virtio_pci, lguest and s/390 all have an 8 bit limit on virtio config space, so noone could ever use this. This is coming back later in a cleaner form. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> Cc: john cooper <john.cooper at redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe at oracle.com> drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 37 +++---------------------------------- include/linux/virtio_blk.h | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) commit 22b4b8fe00398cb66cb9a95d3f0c21b0155e5421 Author: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> Date: Thu Oct 1 10:28:33 2009 +0200 move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.text The function virtballoon_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define it using __devexit. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) commit 360390725dce2961ac35be5f59640f9d44f03d25 Author: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> Date: Thu Oct 1 10:28:35 2009 +0200 move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text The function virtrng_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define it using __devexit. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)