From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
To: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: State of things?
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:34:35 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980825212725.475e-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980824233056.8914A-100000@as200.spellcast.com>
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote:
> Okay, I'm back in Toronto from sunny California, and I'm wondering if
> someone would be so kind as to enlighten me about the current state of mm
> in 2.1/plans for 2.3...
Well:
- the fragmentation problems have been hidden fairly well by
making the dcache better prunable and by allocating less
inodes on small systems
- some swap count 'overflow' has been fixed by Stephen
(there was a leak on 127+ users of one page) -- has this been
merged?
- Stephen implemented swap partitions of up to 2 GB -- not yet merged
- Bill Hawes did an awful lot of debugging, he fixed several
(all?) cases of "found a writable swap cache page"
- I updated some documentation and am busy writing more (for 2.2,
documentation has my priority)
- I am working on proper Out-of-VM process killing code (which
might even work by now :-)
- DaveM is working on a fast hashing scheme for VMAs (read the
"2.1 makes Electric Fence 22x slower" thread on linux-kernel)
- Eric has been busy coding SHMfs and doing dirty pages in the
page cache -- scheduled for 2.3 integrations
- Linus has announced a definite code freeze (at 2.1.115)
Look at http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/jobs.shtml
or http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/mm-patch/todo.html for more
info on what to do...
btw, did you have a nice holiday?
Rik.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-25 3:34 Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-08-25 19:34 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1998-08-31 21:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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