[PATCH] Updated Commentry Patches v2

Mel (mel@csn.ul.ie)
Wed, 22 May 2002 04:17:12 +0100 (IST)


I've updated the five previous patches (previously against pre7) that try
to comment and document how the VM in 2.4.19pre8 works. I've posted them
before on the list so I'm just going to include URL's this time because
the changes are minor.

I've corrected a number of spelling mistakes, included some commentry from
William Lee Irwin and fixed comments so they should be picked up by
kernel-doc scripts

They are available as

2.4.19pre8_paging_commentry
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/patches/2.4.19pre8_paging_commentry
Provides some documentation on the page replacement and paging mechanism
in Documentation/vm. Expands on comments on vmscan.c and memory.c
relating to page replacement

2.4.19pre8_documentation_numa
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/patches/2.4.19pre8_documentation_numa
Extends the Documentation/vm/numa file to try and describe NUMA and
related data structures a bit better

2.4.19pre8_page_alloc_commentry
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/patches/2.4.19pre8_page_alloc_commentry
This extends the documentation on page_alloc.c to describe how the buddy
allocator works

2.4.19pre8_slab_commentry
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/patches/2.4.19pre8_slab_commentry
Extends the commentry on the slab allocator slightly

2.4.19pre8_vmalloc_commentry
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/patches/2.4.19pre8_vmalloc_commentry
Documents how vmalloc works

If there is no complaints, I'll see what I can do about getting them
integrated into the main 2.4 branch. I'm not sure how relevant they are to
2.5. Thanks to all those who provided feedback with them

-- 
		Mel Gorman

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