Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 [u]

Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-09-24T01:21:12Z

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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 13:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc2/2.6.9-rc2-mm2/
>
> - Added Bart's bk-ide-dev tree to the -mm external tree lineup.
>
> - Added Peter Williams' Single Priority Array (SPA) O(1) CPU Scheduler, aka
> the "zaphod" cpu scheduler.
>
> It has a number of tunables and lots of documentation - see the changelog
> entry in zaphod-scheduler.patch for details.
>
> - This kernel doesn't work on ia64 (instant reboot). But neither does
> 2.6.9-rc2, nor current Linus -bk. Is it just me?
>
> - Added the kexec-based crashdump code. This is the code which uses kexec
> to jump into a new mini-kernel when the main kernel crashes. Userspace code
> in that mini-kernel then dumps the main kernel's memory to disk. These new
> patches provide the bits and pieces which the mini-kernel needs to be able
> to get at the main kernel's memory.
>
> There seem to be no hints as to how to get all this working - that will
> come.
>
> - Found (and fixed) the bug which was causing those
> ext3-goes-readonly-under-load problems. It was in the new wait/wakeup code.
>

I have a p4 ht box at home (smp kernel with smt enabled), and with this
I seem to get zombie processes (nautilus a few times now).

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Martin Schlemmer

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