On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:37:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.74/2.5.74-mm1/
> . Mainly a resync with various things and people. Plus a few fixlets.
> . I dropped out a few patches which weren't really proving useful.
> . Included Con's CPU scheduler changes. Feedback on the effectiveness of
> this and the usual benchmarks would be interesting.
> Changes to the CPU scheduler tend to cause surprising and subtle problems
> in areas where you least expect it, and these do take a long time to
> materialise. Alterations in there need to be made carefully and cautiously.
> We shall see...
Here's a resync of highpmd, the big PAE resource scalability patch that
saves 12KB per process of lowmem. It adds pmd accessors analogous to
pte_offset_map() etc., i.e. pmd_offset_map(), pmd_unmap(), etc.
-- wli
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