howto get a patch merged (WAS: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

2007-07-25 Thread Kacper Wysocki
On 7/25/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Piggin is the person to convince it seems and if I've read things > right (I only stepped into this thing at the updatedb mention, so > maybe I haven't) his main question is _why_ the hell it help

Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-12 Thread Kacper Wysocki
On 7/11/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:02:56 +1000 "Matthew Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We all know swap prefetch has been tested out the wazoo since Moses was a > little boy, is compile-time and runtime selectable, and gives an important > and quan

Re: [ck] Swap prefetch tester

2007-05-15 Thread Kacper Wysocki
On 5/14/07, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 12:10, Con Kolivas wrote: > I've had a few requests for a standalone patch implementing swap prefetch > for mainline. > > Here is a patch that is a current rollup that should apply and work for > vanilla 2.6.21 (ie not a -ck

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Kacper Wysocki
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > [...] > >Xorg is using 50% cpu because I'm asking it to. > > What advantage is that giving you? It's a test scenario. Read the thread