Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R6

From: Lee Revell
Date: Fri Sep 10 2004 - 11:53:21 EST


On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:28, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:28:41 +0200, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~swapspace-layout-improvements mm/vmscan.c
> > > --- 25/mm/vmscan.c~swapspace-layout-improvements 2004-06-03 21:32:51.087602712 -0700
> > > +++ 25-akpm/mm/vmscan.c 2004-06-03 21:32:51.102600432 -0700
> >
> > i've attached a merge against current BK-ish kernels. Lee, would you be
> > interested in testing it? It applies cleanly to an -S0 VP tree. I've
> > tested it only lightly - it compiles and boots and survives some simple
> > swapping but that's all.
>
> Hello kernel folks,
> what's the plan regarding the inclusion of VP in mainstream ?
>

I believe the plan is to merge the individual fixes one at a time. See
Ingo's recent non-VP-related posts. Once the fixes for all of the real
deficiencies in the kernel that the VP patches revealed are merged, then
we will have a very small patch.

Lee

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