2.4.20pre11aa1

Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-16T16:49:45Z

Srihari, I would like if you could try to reproduce with this new one
with CONFIG_SOUND=n. Thanks!

URL:

http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.20pre11aa1.gz
http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.20pre11aa1/

Only in 2.4.20pre10aa1: 00_extraversion-10
Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 00_extraversion-11
Only in 2.4.20pre10aa1: 00_max_bytes-5
Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 00_max_bytes-6
Only in 2.4.20pre10aa1: 60_pagecache-atomic-6
Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 60_pagecache-atomic-7
Only in 2.4.20pre10aa1: 70_intermezzo-junk-1
Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 70_intermezzo-junk-2

Rediffed.

Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 00_fcntl_getfl-largefile-1

Clear the implicit O_LARGEPAGE with 64bit archs.

Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 00_o_direct-read-overflow-write-locking-xfs-2

fix xfs compilation (from Christoph).

Only in 2.4.20pre10aa1: 20_sched-o1-fixes-4
Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 20_sched-o1-fixes-5

Take the expired queue into account in sched_yield, still
sched_yield is a cpu-local operation unlike in 2.4 mainline.

Fix idle rescheduling so we don't waste an 80% of the cpu power of some
big irons.

Fixed a race that could explain some instability (in my my tree only).

Only in 2.4.20pre10aa1: 86_x86_64-tsc-hpet-pit-1

Dropped temporarily.

Only in 2.4.20pre10aa1: 9900_aio-11.gz
Only in 2.4.20pre11aa1: 9900_aio-12.gz

Unplug the queue properly in the next_chunk passes too. (from
Chris Mason)

Andrea