2.6.14-ck3

[Con Kolivas]

These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. 
It is configurable to any workload but the default ck patch is aimed at the 
desktop and cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace.

Apply to 2.6.14
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.14/2.6.14-ck3/patch-2.6.14-ck3.bz2

or server version
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/cks/patch-2.6.14-cks3.bz2

web:
http://kernel.kolivas.org
all patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/
Split patches available.


No new features in this one, new version is just to address problematic 
behaviour due to adaptive readahead.


Changes:
Removed:
-adaptive-readahead-6.patch
 Caused I/O related latencies and lag; needs more work

-set_workqueue_nice-1.patch
-dm-drop_kcryptd_prio.patch
 Broken, did nothing


Modified:
-2614ck2-version.diff
+2614ck3-version.diff
 Version


 Full patchlist:
2.6.14_to_staircase12.1.diff
schedrange.diff
schedbatch2.9.diff
sched-iso3.2.patch
smp-nice-support7.diff
1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
defaultcfq.diff
isobatch_ionice2.diff
rt_ionice.diff
pdflush-tweaks.patch
hz-default_values.patch
hz-no250.patch
mm-swap_prefetch-18.patch
vm-mapped.diff
vm-lots_watermark.diff
vm-background_scan-1.diff
sched-staircase12.1_12.2.patch
mm-kswapd_inherit_prio.patch
mm-prio_dependant_scan.patch
mm-batch_prio.patch
2614ck3-version.diff


 also available in patches dir:
hz-extra_values.patch

 adds values 82 and 864 for good timer accuracy but not included by default 
since some drivers break in weird and wonderful ways at these HZ values 
(they're not supposed to but that's another story)


Cheers,
Con

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