Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267793AbUIJEDK (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:03:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267999AbUIJEDK (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:03:10 -0400 Received: from mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.182]:29160 "EHLO mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267793AbUIJEC7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:02:59 -0400 Message-ID: <41412765.4010005@kolivas.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:02:45 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux kernel mailing list , ck kernel mailing list Subject: 2.6.8.1-ck7 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig039FE8B8ABC1D6D288F07AED" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3216 Lines: 116 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig039FE8B8ABC1D6D288F07AED Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness with specific emphasis on the desktop, but configurable to any workload. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-ck7/patch-2.6.8.1-ck7.bz2 web: http://kernel.kolivas.org all patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/ Split patches and a server specific patch available. Added since ck5 (last announced release): -change_reiser4_config.diff Make default reiser 4 off and not configurable if 4k stacks is on -lenient_uw.diff Mapped watermark was too aggressive with freeing ram. Balance is just about right with this being a watermark just above "high" used by kswapd -s8.1_test1 -s8.1test1_test2 -s8.1_smtfix Numerous small fixes for the staircase code to not fool the "burst" mechanism. This helps simulated hardware (wine, mame, zsnes) a lot. -write-barriers.patch File system write barriers added for cfq2 -cfq_iosched_v2.patch Updated Completely Fair Queueing I/O scheduler by Jens Axboe -vesafb-tng-0.9-rc4-r2-2.6.8.1.patch New vesa framebuffer for more modes at console and changing resolution on the fly -vesafb_change_config.diff Make the default off for compatibility purposes. -back_journal_clean_checkpoint_list-latency-fix.patch A small latency hack by akpm was found to be questionable; back it out. -2.6.8.1-ck7-version.diff Changed: -supermount-ng205.diff Compile fixes for gcc3.4+ Full patch list: from_2.6.8.1_to_staircase8.0 schedrange.diff schedbatch2.4.diff schediso2.5.diff sched-adjust-p4gain mapped_watermark.diff defaultcfq.diff config_hz.diff 1g_lowmem_i386.diff akpm-latency-fix.patch 9000-SuSE-117-writeback-lat.patch cddvd-cmdfilter-drop.patch cool-spinlocks-i386.diff bio_uncopy_user-mem-leak.patch bio_uncopy_user2.diff ioport-latency-fix-2.6.8.1.patch supermount-ng205.diff fbsplash-0.9-r5-2.6.8-rc3.patch make-tree_lock-an-rwlock.patch invalidate_inodes-speedup.patch 2.6.8.1-mm2-reiser4.diff change_reiser4_config.diff s8.0_s8.1 mapped_watermark_fix.diff sc_mw.diff 1g_change_config.diff lenient_uw.diff s8.1_test1 s8.1test1_test2 s8.1_smtfix write-barriers.patch cfq_iosched_v2.patch vesafb-tng-0.9-rc4-r2-2.6.8.1.patch vesafb_change_config.diff back_journal_clean_checkpoint_list-latency-fix.patch 2.6.8.1-ck7-version.diff Cheers, Con Kolivas --------------enig039FE8B8ABC1D6D288F07AED Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBQSdrZUg7+tp6mRURAkGuAJsHclDlDK5GHg8iMc8onx4RqrkW9QCdH4sI ddd+rMVKe8FDsDKqi2EjZlU= =Nx4X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig039FE8B8ABC1D6D288F07AED-- - 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/