Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree

[Andrew Morton]

Ken Brownfield wrote:
> 
> ...
> It should be in it's own release separate from other major changes at
> least, IMHO, if the backport is desired by enough folk to outweigh the
> largish change.  And I definitely have VM _way_ higher up my personal
> list. :)
> 

I intend to chunk up the -aa VM patch and feed it into 2.4.19-pre.
I think Andrea's OK with that.   Just the VM and buffercache bits.
Something also needs to be done about block-highmem and pte-highmem.

It'll take some time - it needs to go in across several releases
so we can keep an eye on its effects, and there seem to be quite
a lot of little personal patchpiles banked up for 2.4.19.

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