On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:23:48PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 20:15, Charles Heselton wrote:
>
> > That would be great. I'm currently running 2.4.18. I'm always up for
> > things that would help improve performance, even if they are "experimental".
>
> A good base is Alan's tree, available at:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.19/patch-2.4.19-pre2-ac4.gz
>
> which is to be applied on top of 2.4.19-pre2. It contains the O(1)
> scheduler and rmap VM. If you are interested in preemption, the
> preempt-kernel patch is available at:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/
>
> The 2.5 tree also has most of these toys, and is a better place for this
> development IMO. Personally, I'd stay away from these all-in-one silly
> patches that are floating around these days. Your safest bet is just
> stock 2.4.18 or whatever is latest, although the above addons are all at
> varying levels of "stable" and "safe".
>
Then what do you call -aa and -ac? ;)
These "all-in-one" patches do make it harder to debug specific patches, but
it does create a wider audience for many patches that wouldn't be used
otherwise.
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