Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Marcelo Tosatti
2002-01-08T15:13:21Z

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote:

> Is it possible to decide, now what should go into 2.4.18 (maybe -pre3) -aa or
> -rmap?

-rmap is 2.5 stuff.

I would really like to integrate -aa stuff as soon as I can understand
_why_ Andrea is doing those changes.

Note that people will _always_ complain about VM: It will always be
possible to optimize it to some case and cause harm to other cases.

I'm not saying that VM is perfect right now: It for sure has problems.

> Andrew Morten`s read-latency.patch is a clear winner for me, too.

AFAIK Andrew's code simply adds schedule points around the kernel, right?

If so, nope, I do not plan to integrate it.

> What about 00_nanosleep-5 and bootmem?

What is 00_nanosleep-5 and bootmem ?

> The O(1) scheduler?

2.5 stuff.

> Maybe preemption? It is disengageable so nobody should be harmed but we get
> the chance for wider testing.

2.5 too.