Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:35:54 -0700
From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:19:59PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >>Well, here is the current patch against 2.6.5-mm6. -mm is
> >>different enough from -linus now that it is not 100% trivial
> >>to patch (mainly the rmap and hugepages work).
> >
> >
> >Will this work against 2.6.5 without -mm6?
> >
> 
> Unfortunately it won't patch easily. If this is a big
> problem for you I could make you up a 2.6.5 version.

We'll, I'll try applying his patch and then yours.  If it doesn't work
I'll let you know.

> 
> >As an aside, I've been using SVN to manage my kernel sources.  While
> >I'd be thrilled to make it work, it simply doesn't seem to have the
> >heavy lifting capability to handle the kernel work.  I know the
> >rudiments of using BK.  What I'd like is some sort of HOWTO with
> >example of common tasks for kernel development.  Know of any?
> >
> 
> Well I don't do a great deal of coding or merging, but I
> use Andrew Morton's patch scripts which make things very
> easy for me.

Where does he keep 'em.

> Regarding bitkeeper, I have never tried it but there is
> some help in Documentation/BK-usage/ which might be of
> use to you.

I'll read it.  Thanks.

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