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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: charles-heselton@cox.net,
	Dieter N?tzel <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>,
	Dan Mann <mainlylinux@attbi.com>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.5.6 Interactive performance
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 20:38:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020310043854.GA311@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NFBBKFIFGLNJKLMMGGFPKEPDCFAA.charles-heselton@cox.net> <1015734229.858.4.camel@phantasy>
In-Reply-To: <1015734229.858.4.camel@phantasy>

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:23:48PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 20:15, Charles Heselton wrote:
> 
> > That would be great.  I'm currently running 2.4.18.  I'm always up for
> > things that would help improve performance, even if they are "experimental".
> 
> A good base is Alan's tree, available at:
> 
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.19/patch-2.4.19-pre2-ac4.gz
> 
> which is to be applied on top of 2.4.19-pre2.  It contains the O(1)
> scheduler and rmap VM.  If you are interested in preemption, the
> preempt-kernel patch is available at:
> 
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/
> 
> The 2.5 tree also has most of these toys, and is a better place for this
> development IMO.  Personally, I'd stay away from these all-in-one silly
> patches that are floating around these days.  Your safest bet is just
> stock 2.4.18 or whatever is latest, although the above addons are all at
> varying levels of "stable" and "safe".
> 

Then what do you call -aa and -ac? ;)

These "all-in-one" patches do make it harder to debug specific patches, but
it does create a wider audience for many patches that wouldn't be used
otherwise.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-10  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-09 19:55 Kernel 2.5.6 Interactive performance Dieter Nützel
2002-03-10  1:00 ` Charles Heselton
2002-03-10  1:11   ` Dieter Nützel
2002-03-10  1:15     ` Charles Heselton
2002-03-10  4:23       ` Robert Love
2002-03-10  4:38         ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-03-10  6:05           ` Robert Love
2002-03-10  6:18             ` Charles Heselton
2002-03-10  4:55         ` J Sloan
2002-03-11  1:05     ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found] <003301c1c7fd$a67d08f0$bb187143@amer.cisco.com>
2002-03-10  7:23 ` Charles Heselton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-08  0:14 2.5.6-3 -- preempt_schedule unresolved in snd-pcm.o, snd-emu10k1-synth.o and snd-emu10k1.o Miles Lane
2002-03-09 18:55 ` Kernel 2.5.6 Interactive performance Dan Mann

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