From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754032Ab1CXFe6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:34:58 -0400 Received: from home.kolivas.org ([59.167.196.135]:35785 "EHLO home.kolivas.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263Ab1CXFe4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:34:56 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1772 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:34:55 EDT From: Con Kolivas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.38-ck1 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:05:20 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.38-ck1; KDE/4.6.1; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <201103241605.20645.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity with specific emphasis on the desktop, but suitable to any workload. Apply to 2.6.38: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.38/2.6.38-ck1/patch-2.6.38-ck1.bz2 Broken out tarball: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.38/2.6.38-ck1/2.6.38-ck1-broken-out.tar.bz2 Discrete patches: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.38/2.6.38-ck1/patches/ All -ck patches: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/ Web: http://kernel.kolivas.org Code blog when I feel like it: http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/ Each discrete patch contains a brief description of what it does at the top of the patch itself. This has just been a resync since the last -ck release. Full patchlist: 2.6.38-sched-bfs-363.patch sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch mm-zero_swappiness.patch mm-enable_swaptoken_only_when_swap_full.patch mm-drop_swap_cache_aggressively.patch mm-kswapd_inherit_prio-1.patch mm-background_scan.patch mm-idleprio_prio-1.patch mm-lru_cache_add_lru_tail.patch mm-decrease_default_dirty_ratio.patch kconfig-expose_vmsplit_option.patch hz-default_1000.patch hz-no_default_250.patch hz-raise_max.patch preempt-desktop-tune.patch cpufreq-bfs_tweaks.patch ck1-version.patch I'd also like this opportunity to make a small plug for my compression application, lrzip, which now features full compression and decompression to/from STDIN/STDOUT and high grade password encryption, and is now heavily multithreaded on both compression and decompression cycles. It can be downloaded here: http://lrzip.kolivas.org See this post for the evolution details: http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2011/03/lrzip-0600-stdinstdout-and-encryption.html And see this post about using it for a kernel compression exercise: http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2010/11/lrzip-0520-and-massive-kernel.html Please enjoy! お楽しみください -- -ck