Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 02:20:21 EST

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On Mon, Feb 25 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ken Brownfield wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > It should be in it's own release separate from other major changes at
> > least, IMHO, if the backport is desired by enough folk to outweigh the
> > largish change. And I definitely have VM _way_ higher up my personal
> > list. :)
> >
>
> I intend to chunk up the -aa VM patch and feed it into 2.4.19-pre.
> I think Andrea's OK with that. Just the VM and buffercache bits.
> Something also needs to be done about block-highmem and pte-highmem.

I've recommended block-highmem before, and I can do it again. If it
needs to be split a bit (I don't really think it does, though), I can
even do that too.

-- Jens Axboe

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