Re: vm-33, strongly recommended [Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable]

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:36:09AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I recommend everybody to never use a 2.4 kernel without first applying
> this vm patch:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.19pre5/vm-33.gz
> 
> It applies cleanly to both 2.4.19pre5 and 2.4.19pre6. Andrew splitted it
> into orthogonal pieces for easy merging from Marcelo's side (modulo
> -rest that is important too but that it's still quite monolithic, but
> it's pointless to invest further effort at this time until we are
> certain Marcelo will do its job and eventually merge it in mainline):

Maybe you could start by explaining the questions asked by akpm ontop of
many of the split pages that you even merged into -aa?  Or by explaining why
you reverse all functional changes akpm did in the -rest patch?