From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261187AbVFOH6G (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:58:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261232AbVFOH6G (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:58:06 -0400 Received: from ms003msg.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.42]:26861 "EHLO ms003msg.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261187AbVFOH6C (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:58:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:57:04 +0200 From: Paolo Ornati To: "liyu@LAN" Cc: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: one question about LRU mechanism Message-ID: <20050615095704.558a2eb6@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1118817991.5828.23.camel@liyu.ccoss.com.cn> References: <1118812376.32766.4.camel@liyu.ccoss.com.cn> <20050615052530.GA3913@holomorphy.com> <1118817991.5828.23.camel@liyu.ccoss.com.cn> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-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, 15 Jun 2005 14:46:30 +0800 "liyu@LAN" wrote: > In 2.6.11.11, mm do not have function isolate_lru_pages(), but I > downloaded linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2 source tarball, and apply follow two > patches in order: > > patch-2.6.12-rc6 > 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 "patch-2.6.12-rc6" applies to 2.6.11... not 2.6.11.X. This is beacuse a new 2.6.11.X version can come out in any time before 2.6.12... IOW a rule that says: "patch-2.6.X-rcZ applies to linux-2.6.(X-1)" is much better than "patch-2.6.X-rcZ applies to linux-2.6.(X-1).LAST_RELEASE_WHEN_THIS_RC_COME_OUT" becose you don't have to dicover LAST_RELEASE_WHEN_THIS_RC_COME_OUT... -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.12-rc6 on x86_64