This patch was sent to me by Balbir Singh, cc'd, who worked on the original
patch. The patch results in a massive increase in performance on a 64p/32G
system. The patch was successfully compiled and tested by me on fedora-latest.
From the upstream commit:
Data from Prarit (kernel compile with
Dave Jones wrote:
2. Will we eventually rename kernel-PAE.686 to kernel.686?
I don't think we can, otherwise someone with non-PAE 686's who
does an update will suddenly find themselves unable to boot.
Hi Dave,
I was thinking about this for a little while.
Can't we do this
Part of the problem with that idea is that the Pentium M laptops without PAE
aren't that old. This might upset quite a few people.
Right -- and that's a good point to keep in mind. IMO we shouldn't
break *any* systems when we do this change.
Given the other information coming through
Dave Jones wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:34:04PM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
Given the other information coming through (about dynamic kernel PAE
enable), should we really being doing this right now?
it's vaporware.
Why not wait for the dynamic PAE stuff to settle upstream
Dave Jones wrote:
As per the discussion in #fedora-meeting today,
we're killing off kernel-i686, and just shipping..
* kernel.i586
* kernel-PAE.686
Patch below seems to dtrt.. comments?
Two quick questions Dave.
1. This is for F11?
2. Will we eventually rename kernel-PAE.686 to
Doug Chapman wrote:
This patch has been submitted upstream but I don't know if it will get
pulled in to Fedora through the normal channels prior to F10 or not.
Without this patch Fedora 10 will not install on cciss which breaks
nearly all HP server systems.
thanks,
I think it is
An idea that was tossed around was to do something similar to what
we do in release builds, and offer separate debug/nodebug builds.
But instead of how we do it in releases, do the opposite, and have
a -nodebug build, whilst keeping the regular kernel debug-turned-on
to maximise coverage
