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2.6.14-rc5-np1

From:  Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To:  linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  2.6.14-rc5-np1
Date:  Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:24:26 +1000

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patc...

2.6.14-rc5-np1 includes Hugh's pagefault scalability work and my
lockless pagecache and RCU radix tree work (which is getting stable).

Also, some straight-line performance increases for mm/ which are
worth about 5% kernel residency on kbuild on UP, and about 7.5% on
SMP on a P4 Xeon.

And some various small improvements to corner cases in the radix tree
code.

Performance testing and results would be interesting, on big machines
or small.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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