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?
next prev 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
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2002-04-10 1:17 shane
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