Re: The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 15:53:17 EST


On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:47:47PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> > all the -ac kernels need to be treated as -pre
> >
> > if you watch in detail you can pick ones that are more likly to be stable
> > then others, but some of them will be intentionally cutting edge.
>
> I was under the impression that the -ac line has a bunch of VM fixes
> that haven't been merged into the main tree yet, which should make it
> better under high loads than the standard kernel.
>
> Is this no longer the case?

It is, except that the changes currently in -ac are more
suitable to be merged into 2.5 first ;)

regards,

Rik

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