Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:48:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:48:02 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:42478 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:47:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB4F410.EC91CC5F@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:45:36 -0700 From: george anzinger Organization: Monta Vista Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20b i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: landley@trommello.org CC: Jeff Garzik , Guillaume Boissiere , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Son of crunch time: the list v1.2. References: <20021021135137.2801edd2.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200210211536.25109.landley@trommello.org> <3DB4B1B9.4070303@pobox.com> <200210211642.10435.landley@trommello.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6230 Lines: 155 Rob Landley wrote: > > On Monday 21 October 2002 21:02, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Rob Landley wrote: > > > 1) Roman Zippel's new kernel configuration system. > > > Announce: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6898.html > > > Code: http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/ > > > > I support merge, Linus seemed to support it with the caveat that he said > > he didn't personally see much discussion... > > After CML2, I think everybody's too afraid to speak up. :) > > > > 2) Ted Tso's new ext2/ext3 code with extended attributes and access > > > control lists. > > > Announce: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6787.html > > > Code: bk://extfs.bkbits.net/extfs-2.5-update > > > http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/extfs-2.5 > > > > No comment other than I notice tytso's patches got dropped (at least > > once/twice?). Maybe viro hasn't reviewed them? > > Reading meaning into Linus dropping patches without explanation is like > reading meaning into sheep entrails. (At least with the entrails, you know > the future is likely to contain mutton.) > > > > 5) VM large page support (Many people) (in -mm tree) > > > http://lse.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Rob - this URL doesn't seen to have anything directly to do with large > > page support. > > I got the URL straight from Guillaume's list. Haven't looked at it. I don't > use Oracle, and the largest box I have immediate access to has maybe 2 > gigabytes of memory in it. (256 megs is pretty standard 'round here...) > > > > 6) Page table sharing (Daniel Phillips, Dave McCracken) (in -mm tree) > > > http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7855063&list=35 > > > (A newer version of which seems to be at:) > > > http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6446.html > > > > IMO 2.7.x item... > > Yes and no. Rmap went in already, and this mostly counteracts rmap's main > downside. Still, it is cutting it a bit close... > > > > 7) Dynamic Probes (dprobes team) > > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/dpro > > >bes > > > > why does this need to be the mainline kernel? this is another type of > > thing that can live as a patch, IMO... > > Ask IBM. :) > > > > 8) Zerocopy NFS (Hirokazu Takahashi) > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.1/0429.html > > > > this is already merged, isn't it?? > > Another item straight from Guillaume's list... > > > > 9) High resolution timers (George Anzinger, etc.) > > > http://high-res-timers.sourceforge.net/ > > > > no comment, I've heard arguments that high-res timers would be useful, > > but haven't read the patch myself so won't comment... > > I vaguely remember Linus had some objections that it plays with the clock tick > and potentially penalizes everybody... Hmmm... > > A quick google comes up with this: > > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-28/0360.html Hm, I had not seen this. He is right, but the patch provides an out :) The standard says a timer can overrun. If a timer is repeating so fast as to bogdown the system, the code lumps enough of them to unload the system into the overrun count and doesn't take the interrupts. -g > > > > 10) EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (EVMS team) > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/evms > > > > Sounds like 2.7.x material, viro pointed out several problems ... > > This one's a problem. LVM1 is dead, so either LVM2 or EVMS are needed to > avoid a major functional regression vs 2.4... > > > > 11) Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (Matt Robinson, LKCD team) > > > Announce: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/7060.html > > > Code: http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/ > > > > I would personally _love_ to see this merged, but I think it's 2.7.x > > material given the recent comments (unless they get fixed up) > > T minus 6 days, and counting... :) > > > > 12) Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) > > > http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ > > > > needs more review... but hasn't some of this stuff already made it in? > > (or am I thinking about fbdev...?) > > This and the page table sharing are probably the two that mean the most to me > personally, actually. Not that this is relevant... :) > > > > 13) Kexec, luanch ELF format linux kernel from Linux (Eric W. Biederman) > > > http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6584.html > > > > Useful, but at the same time not many people will use this I think. It > > may need to live as a patch for a while, if not for a long while... > > I have an odd usage that would be helped by having the linux kernel and a > ramdisk in the same image, but that's a question of getting support into lilo > or grub, not the linux kernel itself. There's probably already a way to do > it (actually, I'm sure I could if I wanted to hack lilo), it just hasn't made > it far enough up my to-do list yet... > > > > 14) USAGI IPv6. > > > > > > Yoshifuji Hideyaki points out that ipv6 is very important overseas > > > (where some entire countries make do with a single class B ipv4 > > > > > > address range). He says: > > >>Well, our IPsec is ready, runs and is tested... > > >>ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/patch/ipsec/ > > > > The USAGI guys have been slowly splitting up their patches and > > submitting them... AFAIK DaveM is just waiting on more split-up IPv6 > > patches from them... > > Okay, ARE the Usagi IPV6 patches and Dave's work dovetailing into one project? > I'll happily collate them if so, I'd just like to hear it from one of the > principal authors... > > Rob > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/