On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> >Something between bigmem and his big VM changes makes reiserfs
> >uncompilable. [..]
>
> It's due LFS. Chris should have a reiserfs patch that compiles on top of
> 2.2.18pre2aa2, right? (if not Chris, I c
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
>Something between bigmem and his big VM changes makes reiserfs
>uncompilable. [..]
It's due LFS. Chris should have a reiserfs patch that compiles on top of
2.2.18pre2aa2, right? (if not Chris, I can sure find it because the server
that was reproducing
> > Andrea's. I've been patching most of them in for a while now simply
> > because I've found my SMP system much more stable and useable.
>
> I also takled with Andrea and Alan about this. 2.2.16 will kill itself
> within hours on my system. With Andrea's patches, it lives for long
> times.
I
I hate to post just to say me too, but we couldn't run 2.2.16 for
more than a few hours and even 2.2.17 would stop responding with a
load average >200 right around the time of our heaviest usage
and never come back. Assuming 2.2.18pre2aa2 doesn't crash in the
next 2 weeks (the original pr
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:26:56PM +1100, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> I'd like to advocate the inclusion of the majority of these patches of
> Andrea's. I've been patching most of them in for a while now simply
> because I've found my SMP system much more stable and useable.
I also takled with And
On 2000-09-07 22:39:55 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Andrea VM patches will be included in 2.2.18.
>
> We'll see
Something between bigmem and his big VM changes makes reiserfs
uncompilable. I stay with the stock VM and its only under significant
load that it falls over and starts messing with the
> Andrea VM patches will be included in 2.2.18.
We'll see
> They are not included yet because Alan does not want two untested changes
> together in the same kernel (2.2.18pre3 has ext2 patches).
Right now I dont want to mix VM changes with the ext2 fixups and the large
amount of driver work.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
>
> I'd like to advocate the inclusion of the majority of these patches of
> Andrea's. I've been patching most of them in for a while now simply
> because I've found my SMP system much more stable and useable.
Andrea VM patches will be included in 2.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>It contains code in arch/i386/mtrr.c that looks pretty much like
>my "64 bit MTRR" patch that was posted on lkml some time last year
>and makes use of the full 36 bit MTRR address and size on Intel and
>44 bits on AMD Athlon. BTW my patch contained s
I'd like to advocate the inclusion of the majority of these patches of
Andrea's. I've been patching most of them in for a while now simply
because I've found my SMP system much more stable and useable.
Distinctly lacking from the 2.2.17 release was Marcelo Tosatti's age-old
1-character fix to s
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The 2.2.18pre2aa1 patch is here:
>
>
>ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.18pre2aa2.bz2
It contains code in arch/i386/mtrr.c that looks pretty much like
my "64 bit MTRR" patch that was posted on lkml some ti
The main features of 2.2.18pre2aa2 are:
o Support for 4Gigabyte of RAM on IA32 (me and Gerhard Wichert)
o Support for 2T of RAM on alpha (me)
o Improved VM for high end machines with enough ram and doing
heavy I/O under high memory pressure plus fixes
for the MAP
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