2.6.14-rc5-viper1 "Mango Madness"

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vipernicus · Post by **vipernicus** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:56 pm

Welcome to Viper-sources. It is new, it is fast, it is everything you want.

Ingredients:

*/Update From 2.6.13 to 2.6.14-rc5
patch-2.6.14-rc5.bz2

*/Con Koliva's Performance Kernel Patches
2.6.14-rc1_to_staircase12.1.diff
schedrange.diff
schedbatch2.9.diff
sched-iso3.2.patch
defaultcfq.diff
isobatch_ionice2.diff
rt_ionice.diff
pdflush-tweaks.patch
hz-default_values.patch
hz-no250.patch
vm-mapped.diff
vm-lots_watermark.diff
vm-background_scan-1.diff
mm-swap_prefetch-17.patch
mm-swap_prefetch17_tweaks.patch
set_workqueue_nice.patch
dm-drop_kcryptd_prio.patch
adaptive-readahead-4.patch

*/Hardware
promise-pdc2037x-support.diff
promise-tx4200-support.diff
via-vt6410-support.diff

*/Filesystem
shfs-0.35_for_2.6.14-rc4.diff
squashfs_2.2-r2.diff
unionfs-20051014-1448.diff
genetic-lib-2.6.12-gl2.patch
genetic-io-sched-2.6.12-gl2.patch
genetic-as-sched-2.6.12-gl2.patch

*/Security
realtime-lsm.diff

*/Candy
daconfig-2.3.0.diff
change_colors.diff
vesafb-tng-1.0-rc1-r1-2.6.14-rc4.patch
fbsplash-0.9.2-r4-2.6.14-rc2.patch

*/Various Fixes
swaptoken-tuning.diff
vmalloc_node.diff
write_inode_now-write-inode-if-not-bdi_cap_no_writeback.diff
as_iosched_tuning.diff
badram-2.6.13.diff
usbhid-readd-kconfig.diff
iosched_module_refcount_leak_fix-and-def_iosched_submenu.diff
2612rc4-ide-delay.diff

patch: http://vipernicus.exonotion.com/patch-2 ... viper1.bz2
broken-out: http://vipernicus.exonotion.com/viper-patches/

sirdilznik · Post by **sirdilznik** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:35 pm

It's NOT everything I want: no reiser4

Still if it wasn't for reiser4 (which is a MUST for me, love that file system, I get power outages a lot in my area and have NEVER lost or corrupted any files) I would be quite tempted to try it as the rest seems pretty interesting

Then again maybe I'll patch reiser4 in myself and give it a whirl

vipernicus · Post by **vipernicus** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:05 pm

sirdilznik wrote:It's NOT everything I want: no reiser4

Still if it wasn't for reiser4 (which is a MUST for me, love that file system, I get power outages a lot in my area and have NEVER lost or corrupted any files) I would be quite tempted to try it as the rest seems pretty interesting

Then again maybe I'll patch reiser4 in myself and give it a whirl

Reiser4 has given me headaches in the past, I myself prefer ext3 w/ dir_index.

bollucks · Post by **bollucks** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:10 am

vipernicus wrote:I myself prefer ext3 w/ dir_index.

Sounds good. With noatime and journal=writeback it's even better too (writeback is the journalling mode used by reiserfs by default so it journals less information and does less work - hence it's also slightly less safe).

vipernicus · Post by **vipernicus** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:04 am

do you just do noatime,journal=writeback?

bollucks · Post by **bollucks** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:11 am

vipernicus wrote:do you just do noatime,journal=writeback?

Almost:

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noatime,data=writeback

but you can just set the journal to defaulting writeback journalling using tune2fs - this is all recommended in http://ck.kolivas.org/audio_hints.txt

vipernicus · Post by **vipernicus** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:41 am

bollucks wrote:
vipernicus wrote:do you just do noatime,journal=writeback?
Almost:
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noatime,data=writeback
but you can just set the journal to defaulting writeback journalling using tune2fs - this is all recommended in http://ck.kolivas.org/audio_hints.txt

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

lazx888 · Post by **lazx888** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:22 pm

a reiser4 option would be nice...

vipernicus · Post by **vipernicus** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:45 pm

lazx888 wrote:a reiser4 option would be nice...

Reiser4 goes against what we do when we patch our kernel for performance, we are trying to improve latency, and interactivity. Reiser4 does the opposite. If you want Reiser4, feel free to patch it in.

iphitus · Post by **iphitus** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:12 am

vipernicus wrote:
lazx888 wrote:a reiser4 option would be nice...
Reiser4 goes against what we do when we patch our kernel for performance, we are trying to improve latency, and interactivity. Reiser4 does the opposite. If you want Reiser4, feel free to patch it in.

Reiser4 only does that if you use it

If you dont compile it, it doesnt

lazx888, there's countless (read: too many) ck based patchsets available, so give one of the others a try. I'll be getting a 2.6.14-rc5 archck out tonight hopefully.

vipernicus · Post by **vipernicus** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:31 pm

I'll think about putting Reiser4 in the next version, I just personally didn't need it and didn't patch it in.

playfool · Post by **playfool** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:43 pm

vipernicus wrote:I'll think about putting Reiser4 in the next version, I just personally didn't need it and didn't patch it in.

My advice.. don't repeat my mistake, wait for it to hit upstream..

vipernicus · Post by **vipernicus** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:51 pm

playfool wrote:
vipernicus wrote:I'll think about putting Reiser4 in the next version, I just personally didn't need it and didn't patch it in.
My advice.. don't repeat my mistake, wait for it to hit upstream..

Thanks. I'll do that. I used Reiser4 nearly a year ago, and lost several gigs of data. It would be like giving a suicidal maniac a loaded gun in my opinion.