Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems

Nick Piggin
2004-04-18T05:41:49Z

Marc Singer wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:19:59PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>>>Well, here is the current patch against 2.6.5-mm6. -mm is
>>>>different enough from -linus now that it is not 100% trivial
>>>>to patch (mainly the rmap and hugepages work).
>>>
>>>
>>>Will this work against 2.6.5 without -mm6?
>>>
>>
>>Unfortunately it won't patch easily. If this is a big
>>problem for you I could make you up a 2.6.5 version.
>
>
> We'll, I'll try applying his patch and then yours. If it doesn't work
> I'll let you know.
>

OK thanks.

>
>>>As an aside, I've been using SVN to manage my kernel sources. While
>>>I'd be thrilled to make it work, it simply doesn't seem to have the
>>>heavy lifting capability to handle the kernel work. I know the
>>>rudiments of using BK. What I'd like is some sort of HOWTO with
>>>example of common tasks for kernel development. Know of any?
>>>
>>
>>Well I don't do a great deal of coding or merging, but I
>>use Andrew Morton's patch scripts which make things very
>>easy for me.
>
>
> Where does he keep 'em.
>