2.6.15-ck5

[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.

This includes all patches from 2.6.15.5 so use 2.6.15 as your base.

Apply to 2.6.15
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.15/2.6.15-ck5/patch-2.6.15-ck5.bz2

or server version
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/cks/patch-2.6.15-cks5.bz2

web:
http://kernel.kolivas.org

all patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/

Split patches available.


Changes
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Added:
 +mm-highmem_fix_background_scan.patch
The background scanning when used with a very small amount of highmem (eg 1GB) 
was continually clearing out page cache inappropriately. This patch corrects 
it by not background scanning if highmem is below watermarks.

 +sched-staircase13.4_13.5.patch
Increase rr intervals to 6ms for slightly better cache utilisation while still 
staying below human perceptible jitter levels.

 +nfs-fix_build.patch
The 2.6.15.5 stable patch includes a build error; this fixes it.


Modified:
 -mm-swap_prefetch-19.patch
 +mm-swap_prefetch-28.patch
Update to the latest prefetch as included in 2.6.15-rc5-mm1

 -2.6.15-dynticks-060101.patch
 +2.6.15-dynticks-060227.patch
Update to the latest dynticks code which fixes some bugs

 -patch-2.6.15.4.bz2
 +patch-2.6.15.5.bz2
Update to the latest stable patch

 -2615ck4-version.patch
 +2615ck5-version.patch
Version update


Removed:
 -dynticks-i386_only_config.patch
Part of the latest dynticks patch already so unnecessary.


Full patchlist:
sched-staircase13.2.patch
sched-staircase13.2_13.3.patch
schedrange-1.diff
schedbatch-2.11.diff
sched-iso3.3.patch
vmsplit-config_options.patch
defaultcfq.diff
isobatch_ionice2.diff
rt_ionice.diff
pdflush-tweaks.patch
hz-default_values.patch
hz-no_default_250.patch
mm-swap_prefetch-28.patch
vm-mapped.diff
vm-lots_watermark.diff
vm-background_scan-1.diff
mm-highmem_fix_background_scan.patch
mm-kswapd_inherit_prio-1.patch
mm-prio_dependant_scan.patch
mm-batch_prio.patch
2.6.15-dynticks-060227.patch
dynticks-disable_smp_config.patch
sched-staircase13.3_13.4.patch
sched-staircase13.4_13.5.patch
patch-2.6.15.5.bz2
nfs-fix_build.patch
2615ck5-version.patch


Cheers,
Con

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