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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:51:40 +0100
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?Q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
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Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
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On 20020108 Dieter N?tzel wrote:
>Is it possible to decide, now what should go into 2.4.18 (maybe -pre3) -aa or 
>-rmap?
>Andrew Morten`s read-latency.patch is a clear winner for me, too.
>What about 00_nanosleep-5 and bootmem?
>The O(1) scheduler?
>Maybe preemption? It is disengageable so nobody should be harmed but we get 
>the chance for wider testing.
>
>Any comments?
>

I would pefer the ton of small, usefull and safe bits in Andrea's kernel
(vm-21, cache-aligned-spinlocks, compiler, gcc3, rwsem, highmen fixes...)

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J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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