Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements

Mike Snitzer
2008-01-10T16:08:30Z

On Jan 10, 2008 10:41 AM, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:39:02 -0500
> "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How much trouble am I asking for if I were to try to get your patchset
> > to fly on a fairly recent "stable" kernel (e.g. 2.6.22.15)? If
> > workable, is such an effort before it's time relative to your TODO?
>
> Quite a bit :)
>
> The -mm kernel has the memory controller code, which means the
> mm/ directory is fairly different. My patch set sits on top
> of that.
>
> Chances are that once the -mm kernel goes upstream (in 2.6.25-rc1),
> I can start building on top of that.
>
> OTOH, maybe I could get my patch series onto a recent 2.6.23.X with
> minimal chainsaw effort.

That would be great! I can't speak for others but -mm poses a problem
for testing your patchset because it is so bleeding. Let me know if
you take the plunge on a 2.6.23.x backport; I'd really appreciate it.

Is anyone else interested in consuming a 2.6.23.x backport of Rik's
patchset? If so please speak up.

> > I see that you have an old port to a FC7-based 2.6.21 here:
> > http://people.redhat.com/riel/vmsplit/
> >
> > Also, do you have a public git repo that you regularly publish to for
> > this patchset? If not a git repo do you put the raw patchset on some
> > http/ftp server?
>
> Up to now I have only emailed out the patches. Since there is demand
> for them to be downloadable from somewhere, I'll also start putting
> them on http://people.redhat.com/riel/

Great, thanks.

Mike