----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert G. 'Doc' Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 3:56 PM Subject: Re: mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers
> I'm confused by this. IIRC the performance breakthrough appeared in > 2.4.10pre11 with Andreas Arkangeli's VM patch. I don't understand why Red > Hat released a 2.4.9-6 kernel when the key performance and security fixes > didn't appear until 2.4.10 and 2.4.12, respectively. Is it a "band-aid" > with those two patches retrofitted? Remember that key personnel that work on the official kernel also work for RedHat (see Alan Cox). So some and/or a lot of the patches are incorporated into RedHat's kernel even if a version or two lower depending on what the fix is for. Don't know if that is the case now but I am assuming that happens a decent amount anyway one way or another. Mike _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
