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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] linux-sources-2.4.17-r3 released
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:51:21
Message-Id: 1012287146.1080.6.camel@inventor.gentoo.org
1 Hi All,
2
3 I've just released a new Gentoo Linux kernel -- 2.4.17-r3. This new
4 release includes ACPI and no longer has the not-yet-ready readahead
5 patch that was in 2.4.17-r2 and really hurt disk performance.
6
7 to emerge:
8
9 emerge rsync
10 emerge =sys-kernel/linux-sources-2.4.17-r3
11 cd /usr/src/linux
12 make menuconfig
13 etc. :)
14
15 Here's a summary of all patches included in this kernel:
16
17 NEW in 2.4.17-r3:
18
19 acpi-20011205 (ACPI support, new-style power management)
20
21 REMOVED from 2.4.17-r3:
22
23 readahead patch from akpm (really slowed things down; was mistakenly
24 recommended to me before it was ready)
25
26 EXISTING patches that were in the previous Gentoo Linux kernel:
27
28 XFS (26 Jan 2002 CVS)
29
30 read-latency-2 from akpm (improves multiple disk read/write IO
31 performance)
32
33 fastpte (enables an option to do fast scanning of the page tables)
34
35 irqrate-a1 (optimizes irq handling, no more ksoftirqd and eliminates
36 irq storms on servers)
37
38 ide (from http://www.linuxdiskcert.org, patch
39 ide.2.4.17.01192002.patch) ide updates, performance improvements
40 NOTE: IDE users enable "Taskfile" options in kernel config for
41 maximum performance.
42
43 preempt-2.4.17-r1 (preemptible kernel)
44 NOTE: *disable* for servers, *enable* for desktops
45
46 loopback device deadlock fixes from akpm
47
48 Enjoy!
49
50 --
51 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
52 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
53 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.