From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262123AbTLCWKa (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:10:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262133AbTLCWK3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:10:29 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:24331 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262123AbTLCWKW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:10:22 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? Date: 3 Dec 2003 21:59:12 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> <20031203183719.GD24651@dualathlon.random> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1070488752 20503 192.168.12.62 (3 Dec 2003 21:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20031203183719.GD24651@dualathlon.random>, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: | On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: | > | > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era | > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of | > lowmem. | > | > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 | > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should | > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? | | It's probably going to work an order of magnitude better thanks | especially to the lower_zone_reserve algorithm. | | However I'd still recommend to use my tree, the last two critical bits | you need from my tree are inode-highmem and related_bhs. Those two are | still missing, and you probably need them with 12G. | | I'm going to release a 2.4.23aa1 btw, that will be the last 2.4-aa. I'd like to thank you for all the great VM work you've done, and all the help you gave me off-list back when 1GB was still "a hell of a lot of RAM" and responded to tuning bdflush. Since 2.4 is now frozen it's probably the last -aa release ever needed, in any case. Future releases, if any, are unlikely to change anything which would keep the patches from working. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.