Grouping Pages By Mobility
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| "The objective of this patchset is to keep the system in a state where
| actions such as page reclaim or memory compaction will reduce external
| fragmentation in the system," Mel Gorman described his set of thirteen
| patches labeled "reduce external fragmentation by grouping pages by mobility
| v30".
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Grouping_Pages_By_Mobility
Preemptible RCU
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| Ingo Molnar responded very favorably to the patch, "cool! Now after 2 years
| of development and testing I think this is one of the most mature patchsets
| on lkml - so i'd like to see this designated for potential upstream
| inclusion. I.e. everyone who can see some bug, please holler now."
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Preemptible_RCU
Related:
Linux 2.6.23-rc6
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| So last week was a bust, with a lot of core people away for the kernel
| summit, and with -rc5 having two rather nasty (and silly) one-liner
| problems that bit a number of people - a missing NULL pointer check in
| TCP, and a missing list terminator in ata_piix.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/10/346
Linux 2.6.22.6 Released
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| We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.22.6 kernel.
| It contains a number of bugfixes and all users of the 2.6.22 series are
| encouraged to upgrade to it.
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/575750
Is There Perfection in The Linux Kernel?
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| In a perfect world, you could compile a brand-new Linux kernel
| without the need for much configuration and without error.
|
| According to Linus Torvalds, the new 2.6.19 Linux kernel is such
| an entity.
|
| "It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels," Torvalds wrote in a
| Linux kernel mailing list posting announcing the new kernel.
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http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/3646456
Kernel Comparison for Linux (2.6.18) verses Windows (2003 R2)
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| This aims to be the most comprehensive kernel comparison of the
| latest most popular Unix style kernel verses the latest most
| popular current kernel.
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http://widefox.pbwiki.com/Kernel%20Comparison%20Linux%20vs%20Windows
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