Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:59:36 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote:
> Is it possible to decide, now what should go into 2.4.18 (maybe -pre3) -aa or > -rmap?
-rmap is 2.5 stuff.
I would really like to integrate -aa stuff as soon as I can understand _why_ Andrea is doing those changes.
Note that people will _always_ complain about VM: It will always be possible to optimize it to some case and cause harm to other cases.
I'm not saying that VM is perfect right now: It for sure has problems.
> Andrew Morten`s read-latency.patch is a clear winner for me, too.
AFAIK Andrew's code simply adds schedule points around the kernel, right?
If so, nope, I do not plan to integrate it.
> What about 00_nanosleep-5 and bootmem?
What is 00_nanosleep-5 and bootmem ?
> The O(1) scheduler?
2.5 stuff.
> Maybe preemption? It is disengageable so nobody should be harmed but we get > the chance for wider testing.
2.5 too.
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