On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Hi,
> > But at: > > http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00793.html > > > > I was told to wait for upstream GNU glibc support, for a routine merge. > > That's actually the reverse. You should submit the patch to upstream GNU > libc, so that it is merged later in EGLIBC. > Yes, that's what I meant. > > KSM will be present in the 2.6.32 kernel, which is going to be released > > soon. It might be nice if Debian could include this patch earlier, since > > for us eglibc is the default libc, so that as soon as that kernel is out > > and the kvm/qemu people package a version with KSM support, the > > compilers will pick up the flag and KSM will work in unstable/squeeze. > > (qemu/kvm code has an #ifdef which means that they will be compiled > > without kvm if glibc doesn't have the flag) > > > > Given it changes the API, I would prefer to see it accepted upstream > first. > But given that it's in the upcoming kernel, and also a feature the newest Fedora is shipping with it (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3848441/Fedora+12+Linux+Tackles+Virtualization.htm) is there any reason why this wouldn't reach upstream anyway? Thanks, Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
