[ Thanks to Jeremy
Andrews for this link. ]
“William Lee Irwin III, from here on referred to simply as
‘wli’, has been maintaining a patchset against the 2.5 development
kernel for some time. His announcement for 2.6.0-test11-wli-2
caught my attention, so I decided to give it a try. Scroll down to
the end of this article for a step-by-step guide walking you
through how to apply the -wli patchset and compile your new
kernel.“Curious to know more about wli’s efforts, I dropped him an
email with a few questions. His in-depth replies, included within,
are quite insightful and informative. He explains the history
behind this patchset, provides an overview of some of the
improvements it contains, evaluates its stability, and talks a
little about where he’s going with it. Regarding the patchset, he
explains, ‘one of the primary goals is to improve performance,’
adding, ‘there is a secondary goal of improving resource
scalability and another of improving resource accounting…'”