ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm3/
(temp copy at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-mm3.gz)
- perfctr was dropped. Mikael has ceased development and recommends that
the focus be upon perfmon. See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8102899&forum_id=2237
- There are several performance tuning patches here which need careful
attention and testing. (Does anyone do performance testing any more?)
- An update to the anticipatory scheduler to fix a performance problem
where processes do a single read then exit, in the presence of competing
I/O acticity.
- The size of the page allocator per-cpu magazines has been increased
- The page allocator has been changed to use higher-order allocations
when batch-loading the per-cpu magazines. This is intended to give
improved cache colouring effects however it might have the downside of
causing extra page allocator fragmentation.
- The page allocator's per-cpu magazines have had their lower threshold
set to zero. And we can't remember why it ever had a lower threshold.
- Dropped all the virtualisation preparatory patches. Will later pick these
up from a git tree which chrisw is running.
- There are still quite a few patches here for 2.6.14 (30-50, perhaps).