KernelTrap: 2.6.18 Merge Window

“Andrew Morton posted an overview of patches in -mm, discussing
what is destined for inclusion in the upcoming 2.6.18 Linux kernel.
He noted, ‘there is an unusually large amount of difficult material
here.’ Patch sets that were discussed include a cleanup of kernel
headers, klibc, various subsystem cleanups, the ACX1xx wireless
driver, swsup cleanups, per-task statistic metrics, a clocksource
management infrastructure, smpnice, swap prefetching [story],
priority-inheriting futexes, a revamp of /proc/pid, ecryptfs,
utsname virtualization, readahead, reiser4 improvements, a
statistics infrastructure, and lock validation code.

“Following up on a couple of features discussed earlier on
KernelTrap, both swap-prefetching and utsname virtualization were
briefly discussed. In regards to swap-prefetching Andrew noted, ‘I
remain skeptical, but I have a lot of RAM. Multiple people have
sung its praises. I guess I’ll re-review and tentatively plan on
sending them along or 2.6.18. Opinions are sought…'”

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