From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268406AbUJSLkm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:40:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268148AbUJSLiP (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:38:15 -0400 Received: from mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.201]:47266 "EHLO mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268316AbUJSLNj (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:13:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4174F6DB.3000304@kolivas.org> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:13:31 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux kernel mailing list , CK Kernel Subject: 2.6.9-ck1 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness with specific emphasis on the desktop, but configurable to any workload. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2.6.9-ck1/patch-2.6.9-ck1.bz2 web: http://kernel.kolivas.org all patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/ Split patches and a server specific patch available. Added: +block_fix.diff A small fix for congestion which was causing stalls under heavy i/o load. +269rc4-mingo_ll.diff +269rc4-mingo-bkl.diff The low latency hacks in current -mm releases by Ingo Molnar, including the preemptible big kernel lock +ll-config.diff Default the preemptible kernel lock off +nvidia_compat.diff This allows the current version of the evil binary nvidia drivers to compile. +buildfix.diff This is a last minute fix for 2.6.9 that causes internal compiler errors +269ck1-version.diff Version Changed: ~2.6.9_to_staircase9.0.diff Latest version of staircase cpu scheduler. This is version8.K renamed in line with kernel release. There are no known bugs with this release. The main changes since last -ck released staircase are significantly better handling of subjiffy timeslices, and much larger timeslices for -niced processes as per mainline. ~schedbatch2.5.diff ~schediso2.8.diff Resync with latest staircase. ~mwII.diff The mapped watermark code was incompatible with newer vm changes so it was rewritten and is much less likely to cause oom. The same sysctls still exist (vm.mapped and vm.hardmaplimit), but the hardmaplimit is off by default. If you still have large amounts of swapping under heavy disk i/o I recommend turning this on. ~cfq2-20041019.patch One small bugfix. Full patchlist: 2.6.9_to_staircase9.0.diff schedrange.diff schedbatch2.5.diff schediso2.8.diff mwII.diff 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff cfq2-20041019.patch block_fix.diff defaultcfq.diff 269rc4-mingo_ll.diff 269rc4-mingo-bkl.diff ll-config.diff cddvd-cmdfilter-drop.patch nvidia_compat.diff buildfix.diff 269ck1-version.diff Cheers, Con Kolivas