Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc1 | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 12:19:11 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said: > Hmm.. This is stuff all over the map, but most interesting (or at least > most "core") is probably the merging of the NUMA scheduler and the anonvma > rmap code. The latter gets rid of the expensive pte chains, and instead > allows reverse page mapping by keeping track of which vma (and offset) > each page is associated with. Special kudos to Andrea Arcangeli and Hugh > Dickins. > > Linus
Not wanting to start a flamewar, but this sort of massive changes in a _stable_ series has got me quite confused... either 2.6.0 was premature, or the "just stabilize 2.6, new stuff only into 2.7 (when it opens)" got lost somewhere. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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