Re: 2.0.34pre4

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:59:40 +0000 (GMT)


> Hmmm.... That just stresses the need for somewhat better bug tracking
> (this one was obvious, but I don't recall seeing it reported at all -- I
> may just be absent minded). I've had to sit down and write a test suite

The Debian guys seem to have a good system, perhaps there are folks who
want to do bug tracking work for the kernel in general ?

> Right now only one thread will be handling a page fault at a time, which
> might severely hamper performance -- filling in a zero filled page will
> block until a previous page-in request from disk completes.

I have to admit that for 2.0.x I couldnt care too much about improving
performance. I do care that the Cyclone guys get their product working on
Linux.

Alan

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