Re: [patch] 2.6.17: lockless pagecache

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

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> On 25/06/06, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> 
>> Updated lockless pagecache patchset available here:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/lockless/2.6.17/lockless.patch.gz 
>>
>>
> 
> "make O=/dir oldconfig" doesn't work.
> 
> [michal@ltg01-fedora linux-work]$ LANG="C" make O=../linux-work-obj/ 
> oldconfig

Hmm, I can't see how I did that.

npiggin@didi:~/x$ zcat lockless.patch.gz | diffstat
  drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c |    7 -
  fs/buffer.c                     |    4
  fs/inode.c                      |    2
  include/asm-arm/cacheflush.h    |    4
  include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h |    4
  include/linux/fs.h              |    2
  include/linux/mm.h              |    6
  include/linux/page-flags.h      |   26 ++--
  include/linux/pagemap.h         |   74 ++++++++++++
  include/linux/radix-tree.h      |   67 +++++++++++
  include/linux/swap.h            |    1
  lib/radix-tree.c                |  240 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
  mm/filemap.c                    |  242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
  mm/hugetlb.c                    |    8 -
  mm/migrate.c                    |   21 ++-
  mm/page-writeback.c             |   40 ++----
  mm/readahead.c                  |    7 -
  mm/swap_state.c                 |   43 +++++--
  mm/swapfile.c                   |    6
  mm/truncate.c                   |    6
  mm/vmscan.c                     |   20 ++-
  21 files changed, 619 insertions(+), 211 deletions(-)

I recall there was a bit of noise recently about problems building
into an external working directory?

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