Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Marc Singer wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:19:59PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>>>Well, here is the current patch against 2.6.5-mm6. -mm is
>>>>different enough from -linus now that it is not 100% trivial
>>>>to patch (mainly the rmap and hugepages work).
>>>
>>>
>>>Will this work against 2.6.5 without -mm6?
>>>
>>
>>Unfortunately it won't patch easily. If this is a big
>>problem for you I could make you up a 2.6.5 version.
> 
> 
> We'll, I'll try applying his patch and then yours.  If it doesn't work
> I'll let you know.
> 

OK thanks.

> 
>>>As an aside, I've been using SVN to manage my kernel sources.  While
>>>I'd be thrilled to make it work, it simply doesn't seem to have the
>>>heavy lifting capability to handle the kernel work.  I know the
>>>rudiments of using BK.  What I'd like is some sort of HOWTO with
>>>example of common tasks for kernel development.  Know of any?
>>>
>>
>>Well I don't do a great deal of coding or merging, but I
>>use Andrew Morton's patch scripts which make things very
>>easy for me.
> 
> 
> Where does he keep 'em.
> 

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/