Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:26:56 +1100 | From | Matthew Hawkins <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18pre2aa2 and patches for 2.2.18pre3 |
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I'd like to advocate the inclusion of the majority of these patches of Andrea's. I've been patching most of them in for a while now simply because I've found my SMP system much more stable and useable.
Distinctly lacking from the 2.2.17 release was Marcelo Tosatti's age-old 1-character fix to sync_page_buffers() without which my system is unusable. (namely, doing WRITEA in the call to ll_rw_block()). Andrea provides a similar and cleaner implementation of the entire sync_page_buffers() function which also works fine.
Debate the more ambitious patches he proposes all you like, all I care about is the SMP fixes / improvements and the fact that I don't have to put up with both cpu's going flat out even when the system is, from a user's perspective, idle. I don't use initrd, have an AXP (worse luck), use >2Gb files or LVM. Although having a 2.3 compatible LVM would not go astray for a 2.2.x-lmp :)
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