Subject:
2.6.11-ck1
From:
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Date:
Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:30:26 +1100
To:
ck@vds.kolivas.org
CC:
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness. It is 
configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the 
desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace.

http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck1/patch-2.6.11-ck1.bz2

web:
http://kernel.kolivas.org
all patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/
Split patches and a server specific patch available.


Added since 2.6.10-ck7:
+cfq-ts-21.diff
The latest version of Jens' cfq-timeslice i/o scheduler now heavily tested and 
with full read i/o priority support

+isobatch_ionice2.diff
Support for i/o priorities suitable for SCHED_ISO and SCHED_BATCH tasks

+rt_ionice.diff
Support for i/o priority suitable for real time tasks


Changed:
+schediso2.11.diff
The development of the 3.x series of Isochronous scheduling support did not 
reach full maturity and its features were no longer deemed desirable. This 
has a minor bugfix for the 2.10 version included previously instead.

+mapped_watermark3.diff
Finally I have tweaked the mapped watermark patch which makes for memory 
scanning to be progressively more aggressive the more stress/fragmentation it 
is under, to swap far less under all sorts of load (especially i/o load), yet 
not risk out-of-memory kills. 


Rolled up:
~2.6.10_to_staircase9.2.diff
~schedbatch2.6.diff
~schediso2.8.diff
~mwII.diff
~s9.2_s9.3.diff
~2.8_i2.9.diff
~9.3_s9.4.diff
~i2.9_i2.10.diff
~b2.6_b2.7.diff
~s9.4_s10.diff
~s10_test1.diff
~s10_s10.1.diff
~s10.1_s10.2.diff
~s10.2_s10.3.diff
~s10.3_s10.4.diff
~s10.4_s10.5.diff
All merged into their newer versions


Removed:
-patch-2.6.10-as6
-2.6.10-mingoll.diff
-vm-pageout-throttling.patch
-fix-ll-resume.diff
-1504_vmscan-writeback-pages.patch
-2610ck7-version.diff
All not required as included in 2.6.11 or deprecated


Full patchlist:
 2.6.11_to_staircase10.5.diff
Latest version of the staircase O(1) single priority array 
foreground-background cpu scheduler

 schedrange.diff
Eases addition of scheduling policies

 schedbatch2.7.diff
Idle cpu scheduling

 schediso2.11.diff
Unprivileged low latency cpu scheduling

 mapped_watermark3.diff
Lighter memory scanning under light loads and far less swapping

 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
Support 1GB of memory without enabling HIGHMEM

 cddvd-cmdfilter-drop.patch
Support normal user burning of cds

 nvidia_6111-6629_compat2.diff
Make nvidia compile support easier. Note to build the actual module you need 
to manually extract the NVIDIA_kernel file and patch (-p0) one of the  
relevant compatibility patches from here:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6111-1132076.diff
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6629-1201042.diff

 cfq-ts-21.diff
Complete fair queueing timeslice i/o scheduler v21

 defaultcfq.diff
Enable the cfq I/O scheduler by default

 isobatch_ionice2.diff
Support for i/o priorities suitable for SCHED_ISO and SCHED_BATCH tasks

 rt_ionice.diff
Support for i/o priority suitable for real time tasks

 2611ck1-version.diff
version

and available separately in the patches/ dir as an addon:
 supermount-ng208-2611.diff
Simplest way to automount removable media


And don't forget to pour one of these before booting this kernel:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/cognac.JPG


Cheers,
Con