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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Aviv Shavit <avivshavit@yahoo.com>,
	Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vm-33, strongly recommended [Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable]
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:55:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410095555.A9568@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020225224050.D26077@asooo.flowerfire.com> <20020409204545.11251.qmail@web13205.mail.yahoo.com> <20020410013609.A6875@dualathlon.random>

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:36:09AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I recommend everybody to never use a 2.4 kernel without first applying
> this vm patch:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.19pre5/vm-33.gz
> 
> It applies cleanly to both 2.4.19pre5 and 2.4.19pre6. Andrew splitted it
> into orthogonal pieces for easy merging from Marcelo's side (modulo
> -rest that is important too but that it's still quite monolithic, but
> it's pointless to invest further effort at this time until we are
> certain Marcelo will do its job and eventually merge it in mainline):

Maybe you could start by explaining the questions asked by akpm ontop of
many of the split pages that you even merged into -aa?  Or by explaining why
you reverse all functional changes akpm did in the -rest patch?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-10  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-25 11:51 [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable Aviv Shavit
2002-02-26  0:09 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-26  4:40   ` Ken Brownfield
2002-04-09 20:45     ` Aviv Shavit
2002-04-09 21:16       ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-09 23:36       ` vm-33, strongly recommended [Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable] Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-10  0:07         ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-10  0:30           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-10 22:40             ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-10 23:51               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-10  8:55         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-04-11 23:34         ` Ken Brownfield
2002-04-11 23:50           ` Aviv Shavit
2002-04-12  0:20             ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-10  1:17 shane

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