From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6 From: Robert Love In-Reply-To: <1047613609.2848.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20030313032615.7ca491d6.akpm@digeo.com> <1047572586.1281.1.camel@ixodes.goop.org> <20030313113448.595c6119.akpm@digeo.com> <1047611104.14782.5410.camel@spc1.mesatop.com> <20030313192809.17301709.akpm@digeo.com> <1047613609.2848.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1047614200.1226.28.camel@icbm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 13 Mar 2003 22:56:41 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Shawn Cc: Andrew Morton , Steven Cole , jeremy@goop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 22:46, Shawn wrote: > This reminds me of something I've not looked into for some time. > > Being an active user of the 2.5 series including -mm, should I have > updated glibc, or is there nothing new enough yet to warrant that? In 2.3 and beyond (current is 2.3.2 I think), there are a few 2.5 changes. Nothing required, though. The biggest is NPTL, which takes advantage of all the threading stuff. There is also sysenter support. And support for new 2.5 system calls - most, but not all, of them are there. I know the affinity calls are. And the new posix_fadvise(). > Maybe I should just ask the glibc people. Wasn't sure what the proper > forum was. libc-alpha is the public glibc list. It is hosted at sources.redhat.com. Robert Love -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org