2.6.13-ck7

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. 
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.


THIS INCLUDES ALL THE PATCHES IN 2.6.13.3 SO YOU SHOULD START WITH 2.6.13 TO 
USE THESE PATCHES

Apply to 2.6.13
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-ck7/patch-2.6.13-ck7.bz2

or server version
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-ck7/patch-2.6.13-ck7-server.bz2

web:
http://kernel.kolivas.org
all patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/
Split patches available.


Changes:

Added:

 +sp11_sp14.patch
Swap prefetch version 14. Substantial improvements were done to the swap 
prefetching code. Numerous locking improvements, better testing of when to 
prefetch, and most importantly the pinned swapcache bug which would 
eventually lead to slowdowns and even out-of-memory kills was found and 
fixed. 
It is now tunable with the parameter in 

/proc/sys/vm/swap_prefetch

to determine how many blocks of 128kb it will prefetch at a time. The default 
is set to 2, setting it to 0 disables prefetching, and you can set a high 
value (such as 1000) to basically prefetch everything it can in one go while 
the vm is idle.
This code is considered safe and I believe stable now.


Changed:

 -patch-2.6.13.2.bz2
 +patch-2.6.13.3.bz2
Latest stable version

 -2613ck6-version.diff
 +2613ck7-version.diff
Version update


Full patchlist:
sched-run_normal_with_rt_on_sibling.diff 
2.6.13_to_staircase12.diff 
schedrange.diff 
schedbatch2.9.diff 
sched-iso3.1.patch 
sched-iso_tunables.patch 
smp-nice-support7.diff 
1g_lowmem1_i386.diff 
defaultcfq.diff 
isobatch_ionice2.diff 
rt_ionice.diff 
pdflush-tweaks.patch 
hz-default_values.patch 
vm-mapped.diff 
vm-lots_watermark.diff 
vm-background_scan.diff 
vm-swap_prefetch-2.patch 
sched-staircase12_tweak.patch 
vm-sp2_sp5.patch 
hz-no250.patch 
vm-fix_background_scan.patch 
vm-sp5_sp6.patch 
vm-sp6_sp7.2.patch 
ck5_sp11.patch 
patch-2.6.13.3.bz2 
sp11_sp14.patch 
2613ck7-version.diff 


Cheers,
Con

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