Re: [patch] 2.6.17: lockless pagecache

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On 25/06/06, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > Updated lockless pagecache patchset available here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/lockless/2.6.17/lockless.patch.gz 
>
> "make O=/dir oldconfig" doesn't work.
>
> [michal@ltg01-fedora linux-work]$ LANG="C" make O=../linux-work-obj/ 
> oldconfig

Hmm, I can't see how I did that.

npiggin@didi:~/x$ zcat lockless.patch.gz | diffstat
 drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c |    7 -
 fs/buffer.c                     |    4
 fs/inode.c                      |    2
 include/asm-arm/cacheflush.h    |    4
 include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h |    4
 include/linux/fs.h              |    2
 include/linux/mm.h              |    6
 include/linux/page-flags.h      |   26 ++--
 include/linux/pagemap.h         |   74 ++++++++++++
 include/linux/radix-tree.h      |   67 +++++++++++
 include/linux/swap.h            |    1
 lib/radix-tree.c                |  240 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 mm/filemap.c                    |  242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 mm/hugetlb.c                    |    8 -
 mm/migrate.c                    |   21 ++-
 mm/page-writeback.c             |   40 ++----
 mm/readahead.c                  |    7 -
 mm/swap_state.c                 |   43 +++++--
 mm/swapfile.c                   |    6
 mm/truncate.c                   |    6
 mm/vmscan.c                     |   20 ++-
 21 files changed, 619 insertions(+), 211 deletions(-)

I recall there was a bit of noise recently about problems building
into an external working directory?

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