Re: 2.6.7-mm1

From: Eric BEGOT
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 06:50:23 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.7-mm1/


- Added a new vm tunable: /proc/sys/vm/vfs-cache-pressure.

This allows tuning of the kernel's preference for reclaiming VFS caches
versus pagecache.

vfs-cache-pressure=0: dentry and inode caches aren't reclaimed at all
vfs-cache-pressure=100: default - current behaviour
vfs-cache-pressure > 100: reclaim the VFS caches harder.

It seems that large values of vfs-cache-pressure are needed to make much
difference: 1000 or more.

- Under some circumstances the current page reclaim code can hold
interrupts off for a long time. That is fixed here.

- I went through and dropped a bunch of patches which don't seem to be very
useful now - mainly debug stuff.

- Various driver updates and random fixes



I can't compile 2.6.7-mm1. here are the errors :

CC security/selinux/hooks.o

security/selinux/hooks.c:4129: error: `selinux_netlink_send' undeclared here (not in a function)

security/selinux/hooks.c:4129: error: initializer element is not constant

security/selinux/hooks.c:4129: error: (near initialization for `selinux_ops.netlink_send')

security/selinux/hooks.c:4130: error: `selinux_netlink_recv' undeclared here (not in a function)

security/selinux/hooks.c:4130: error: initializer element is not constant

security/selinux/hooks.c:4130: error: (near initialization for `selinux_ops.netlink_recv')

make[2]: *** [security/selinux/hooks.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [security/selinux] Error 2

make: *** [security] Error 2


With the same config, the 2.6.7 compiles perfectly. I join my .config.

Regards
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