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Re: New pagg/job patches available

To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: New pagg/job patches available
From: Erik Jacobson <erikj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 07:13:29 -0500
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Thanks.

Let me digest this and perhaps have some time to discuss it with a couple
of my co-workers.  I did get this and will get back to you.

Erik

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Peter Williams wrote:

> Erik Jacobson wrote:
> > There are new pagg and job patches available for 2.4.26 and 2.6.5
> > kernels.
> >
> > I went through a couple sets of changes based on suggestions from LMKL
> > with most of the suggestions coming from Christoph Hellwig.
> >
> > Because changes include removing and renaming macros and functions, the
> > new job patch requires the new pagg patch.  In other words, if you wish
> > to use the job patch, be sure you match it with the proper version of
> > the PAGG.
> >
> > I updated the README to show the pairs.
> >
> > I have one more batch of changes to implement yet.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > You can find the new patches on oss.sgi.com/projects/pagg
> > Click on 'download' on the left.
> >
> > --
> > Erik Jacobson - Linux System Software - Silicon Graphics - Eagan, Minnesota
> >
> >
>
> Please find attached a patch which is a first pass at a "safe to block"
> method for calling the init() function during client registration.  The
> way in which this patch handles kmalloc() failures needs to be improved
> but I think this could benefit from input from someone more familiar
> with PAGG than I am.
>
> Peter
>

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Erik Jacobson - Linux System Software - Silicon Graphics - Eagan, Minnesota

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