Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-05 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:45, Jeff Dike wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:41:11PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 13:10, Blaisorblade wrote: What I was thinking is that if we get prezeroing infrastructure that can use various prezeroing accelerators (as has

Re: [uml-devel] The web page doesn't say where to get the switch daemon.

2005-11-05 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 05 November 2005 02:00, Rob Landley wrote: It's not on the networking page, or in the howto, it's not in the kernel tarball, and the download page just links to http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html#switch [...] I guess that yep, the web-pages are totally as-is,

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 04 November 2005 23:45, Jeff Dike wrote: If we get prezeroing, the tunable is useful. If we haven't got prezeroing, this infrastructure probably won't get in. I'm not really convinced that prezeroing would be that useful, particularly through madvise. The reason is that the

Re: [uml-devel] The web page doesn't say where to get the switch daemon.

2005-11-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 04 November 2005 23:16, Jeff Dike wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:00:37PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: Let's see, the uml_net link from the download page (the difference between that and uml_switch is...?) links to a generic page about CVS, which isn't installed on my laptop.

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 05 November 2005 05:30, Blaisorblade wrote: I've proposed in fact including (for now) another of Con's patch, which gives some preference to free memory over pagecache (to speed up page allocation)... but I don't quite understand why no Con's patches get merged, at least in -mm

Re: [uml-devel] The web page doesn't say where to get the switch daemon.

2005-11-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 04 November 2005 23:16, Jeff Dike wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:00:37PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: Let's see, the uml_net link from the download page (the difference between that and uml_switch is...?) links to a generic page about CVS, which isn't installed on my laptop.