From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265167AbTLFNgl (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:36:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265168AbTLFNgl (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:36:41 -0500 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:31715 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265167AbTLFNgi (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:36:38 -0500 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:36:36 +0100 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: ian.soboroff@nist.gov, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? Message-Id: <20031206143636.4f22800d.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031203183719.GD24651@dualathlon.random> References: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> <20031203183719.GD24651@dualathlon.random> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:37:19 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > > > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era > > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of > > lowmem. > > > > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 > > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should > > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? > > 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. Let us try these please and have them (at last) included in mainline. Thanks for your continous work. Regards, Stephan