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
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
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
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
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
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
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
> 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
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
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
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
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 time
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
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 some
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
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
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
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