Perhaps i'm naive, but i always thought that if a patch applies cleanly, then it works. At least that has been my limited experience.
--- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone besides me trying to keep up with the flurry of kernel > patches on > lkml concerning scheduling, memory-mapping, pre-epmtion, etc.? > If so, does anyone have a good idea of what works, what works > together, and > what don't? > > I'm currently running 2.4.17 with the preempt patch from rml and > grsecurity > (let me take a minute to advocate grsecurity. this patchset rocks! > www.grsecurity.net for the details. I don't use the ACL stuff, or the > heap > stuff, but the extra logging, the extra control over the netwking, the > added > net devices in the entropy pool, and the other protections are > SWEET!). So > far, this combination rocks! My system is running at a very good clip, > and is > pretty damn secure. > > However, I'm looking at the reverse-map patch (Ingos?) and I can't > tell if it > will work with the pre-empt or not (and would it be beneficial?). I > know the > new O(1) scheduler is incompatible (and I wouldn't try it anyway. that > one is > *way* too invasive for me). Anyone making sense of all this stuff? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
