Interesting LKML threads

Lovechild · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 2:44 pm Post subject: Interesting LKML threads

Faster user_copy functions for AMD Athlon/Duron
The entire thread on lkml shows results of around 200-300% faster user_copy benchmarks

Possible fix for lag problem
One of the most annoying bugs in the current 2.4.19 and .20 is the lag bug, but it seems that there's a solution on the way.

rmap 15 VM for 2.4.19
Rik Van Riel did it again, here's the lastest release of RMAP, changelog includes lots of O(1) fixes in this one. Sadly the speed patches from 2.5 are still not backported to the 2.4.19 version.