2.6.11-ck2

[Con Kolivas]

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

http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck2/patch-2.6.11-ck2.bz2

web:
http://kernel.kolivas.org
all patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/
Split patches and a server specific patch available.


Note:
Please do not set the mapped value any higher than the default (66) with a 
hardmaplimit on. This will bring an out of memory condition easily. Try the 
default setting and you'll find it avoids swap much more aggressively than 
higher mapped settings did on previous versions.


Added since 2.6.11-ck1:
+s10.5_s10.6.diff
Staircase scheduler update. Somehow the merge from 2.6.10-staircase10.5 to 
2.6.11 included an experimental change that was never meant to be part of 
staircase10.5. This patch removes that change so brings it back to the 10.5 
design. Some slowdown was experienced over time on slower hardware and this 
patch fixes it. To avoid confusion the version number has been updated. 
Thanks to Martin Josefsson for tracking this down!

+cfq-ts21-fix.diff
Jens had some fixes to the latest cfq-ts code that hadn't yet made it to my 
tree. This brings it in line with his current stable tree.

+patch-2.6.11.1
+patch-2.6.11.2
The obvious and security fixes tree.

+2611ck2-version.diff
Version


Removed:
-2611ck1-version.diff


Full patchlist:
 2.6.11_to_staircase10.5.diff
Latest version of the staircase O(1) single priority array 
foreground-background cpu scheduler

 schedrange.diff
Eases addition of scheduling policies

 schedbatch2.7.diff
Idle cpu scheduling

 schediso2.11.diff
Unprivileged low latency cpu scheduling

 mapped_watermark3.diff
Lighter memory scanning under light loads and far less swapping

 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
Support 1GB of memory without enabling HIGHMEM

 cddvd-cmdfilter-drop.patch
Support normal user burning of cds

 nvidia_6111-6629_compat2.diff
Make nvidia compile support easier. Note to build the actual module you need 
to manually extract the NVIDIA_kernel file and patch (-p0) one of the  
relevant compatibility patches from here:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6111-1132076.diff
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6629-1201042.diff

 cfq-ts-21.diff
Complete fair queueing timeslice i/o scheduler v21

 defaultcfq.diff
Enable the cfq I/O scheduler by default

 isobatch_ionice2.diff
Support for i/o priorities suitable for SCHED_ISO and SCHED_BATCH tasks

 rt_ionice.diff
Support for i/o priority suitable for real time tasks

 s10.5_s10.6.diff
Staircase scheduler update.

 cfq-ts21-fix.diff
Jens had some fixes to the latest cfq-ts code that hadn't yet made it to my 
tree. This brings it in line with his current stable tree.

 patch-2.6.11.1
 patch-2.6.11.2
The obvious and security fixes tree.

 2611ck2-version.diff
Version

and available separately in the patches/ dir as an addon:
 supermount-ng208-2611.diff
Simplest way to automount removable media


And don't forget to pour one of these before booting this kernel:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/cognac.JPG


Cheers,
Con

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