Re: 2.6.13-mm3

[Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>]

On 9/12/05, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/12/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm3/
> >
> > (temp copy at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-mm3.gz)
> >
> > - perfctr was dropped.  Mikael has ceased development and recommends that
> >  the focus be upon perfmon.  See
> >  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8102899&forum_id=2237
> >
> > - There are several performance tuning patches here which need careful
> >  attention and testing.  (Does anyone do performance testing any more?)
> 
> How about the tool announced months ago by Martin J. Bligh ?
> 
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/abat/regression_matrix.html

Preferred location is: test.kernel.org (much shorter too!)

Also, the problem for -mm3 is that -mm2 did not build on most
machines. -mm1 did on 4/6. Probably some determination could be made
from those.

Thanks,
Nish