Re: [PATCH] 64 bit jiffies for 2.4.23-pre2

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:28:31PM +0200, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> > > I think it's the most appropriate solution for 2.4. But you need to decide
> > > whether you take this, whether someone should backport the (intrusive and
> > > architecture-dependent) 2.6 fix, or whether you drop it completly and let
> > > people just upgrade to 2.6.
> >
> > Sincerely, I prefer people use 2.6.
> 
> OK, for people wanting this in their private trees, I'll try to keep an
> up-to-date version at
> 
>   http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.4/

Ok, thanks Tim, I'll keep including it in my kernel since it allows my systems
to live such a long life :-) But I don't think they will ever beat Alan's box
which lasted 1100 days on 1.2.13 ! And that would not be reasonable because
even for security reasons, you sometimes have to upgrade.

BTW, that reminds me of Netware's patches that were basically hot fixes that
you could apply without shutting the system down. That was really wonderful a
feature that I would love to see on Linux. This is already doable with modules,
but not with the system core.

Regards,
Willy