Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:05:22 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? |
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:14:24PM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes: > > > It's probably going to work an order of magnitude better thanks > > especially to the lower_zone_reserve algorithm. > > > > However I'd still recommend to use my tree, the last two critical bits > > you need from my tree are inode-highmem and related_bhs. Those two are > > still missing, and you probably need them with 12G. > > > > I'm going to release a 2.4.23aa1 btw, that will be the last 2.4-aa. > > I found 10_inode-highmem-2 in the 2.4.23pre6aa3 directory, but I > couldn't find any related_bhs one. Am I looking in the wrong place?
the latter is not a self contained patch unfortunately (it could be in theory but it isn't in practice), and there's no way I can invest effort in 2.4 to extract it now (infact I need to check that 2.6 addresses that instead). But you can find it in the 05_vm_26-rest-1 patch. Ideally if you apply all the 05_vm_* and the inode-highmem (solving possible rejects, or applying only the patch with dependencies), you should be fine then.
> I'd wait for -aa1, but I want to try the updated aic7xxx driver in 2.4.23 > sooner rather than later.
Just to try the driver you can go with plain 2.4.23 right now, the inode and bh troubles showup in a few days normally, not in a few minutes, however it depends on your workload. For example with 12G you probably want to avoid updatedb until you apply all the vm fixes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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