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Hi All, |
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I've just released a new Gentoo Linux kernel -- 2.4.17-r3. This new |
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release includes ACPI and no longer has the not-yet-ready readahead |
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patch that was in 2.4.17-r2 and really hurt disk performance. |
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to emerge: |
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emerge rsync |
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emerge =sys-kernel/linux-sources-2.4.17-r3 |
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cd /usr/src/linux |
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make menuconfig |
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etc. :) |
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Here's a summary of all patches included in this kernel: |
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NEW in 2.4.17-r3: |
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acpi-20011205 (ACPI support, new-style power management) |
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REMOVED from 2.4.17-r3: |
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readahead patch from akpm (really slowed things down; was mistakenly |
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recommended to me before it was ready) |
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EXISTING patches that were in the previous Gentoo Linux kernel: |
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XFS (26 Jan 2002 CVS) |
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read-latency-2 from akpm (improves multiple disk read/write IO |
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performance) |
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fastpte (enables an option to do fast scanning of the page tables) |
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irqrate-a1 (optimizes irq handling, no more ksoftirqd and eliminates |
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irq storms on servers) |
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ide (from http://www.linuxdiskcert.org, patch |
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ide.2.4.17.01192002.patch) ide updates, performance improvements |
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NOTE: IDE users enable "Taskfile" options in kernel config for |
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maximum performance. |
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preempt-2.4.17-r1 (preemptible kernel) |
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NOTE: *disable* for servers, *enable* for desktops |
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loopback device deadlock fixes from akpm |
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Enjoy! |
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-- |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |