From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261881AbTLCVF3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:05:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261929AbTLCVF3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:05:29 -0500 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:42406 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261881AbTLCVFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:05:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:05:22 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Ian Soboroff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? Message-ID: <20031203210522.GF24651@dualathlon.random> References: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> <20031203183719.GD24651@dualathlon.random> <9cfu14hbqvz.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9cfu14hbqvz.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:14:24PM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli writes: > > > It's probably going to work an order of magnitude better thanks > > especially to the lower_zone_reserve algorithm. > > > > However I'd still recommend to use my tree, the last two critical bits > > you need from my tree are inode-highmem and related_bhs. Those two are > > still missing, and you probably need them with 12G. > > > > I'm going to release a 2.4.23aa1 btw, that will be the last 2.4-aa. > > I found 10_inode-highmem-2 in the 2.4.23pre6aa3 directory, but I > couldn't find any related_bhs one. Am I looking in the wrong place? the latter is not a self contained patch unfortunately (it could be in theory but it isn't in practice), and there's no way I can invest effort in 2.4 to extract it now (infact I need to check that 2.6 addresses that instead). But you can find it in the 05_vm_26-rest-1 patch. Ideally if you apply all the 05_vm_* and the inode-highmem (solving possible rejects, or applying only the patch with dependencies), you should be fine then. > I'd wait for -aa1, but I want to try the updated aic7xxx driver in 2.4.23 > sooner rather than later. Just to try the driver you can go with plain 2.4.23 right now, the inode and bh troubles showup in a few days normally, not in a few minutes, however it depends on your workload. For example with 12G you probably want to avoid updatedb until you apply all the vm fixes.