As seen in the linked article, version 2.6.36 of zen-sources ("Aufs Revenge") is officially tagged. A version bump at some point would be awesome. Some of the improvements in this release: (also as seen in the linked article) * "IO-Less dirty throttling v2" patches from Wu Fengguang * "sched: Improve desktop interactivity: Implement automated per session task groups" patch from Mike Galbraith * AUFS 2.1 - 2.6.36 support * Many CFS backports from 2.6.37 to compliment Mike Galbraith's autogrouping patches * Lots of miscellaneous writeback and mm/vmscan patches from 2.6.37 and a special fix from Minchan Kim to fix disk thrashing when under loads comparable to rsync backups. * Late reiser4 support (due to late patch release on behalf of namesys) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
http://git.zen-kernel.org/zen-stable/snapshot/zen-stable-2.6.36-zen1.tar.bz2 Does not look valid...
Ah, I didn't understand what you meant (as that link works great for me) until I visited http://downloads.zen-kernel.org/. I have to wonder why they don't have the patchset up proper yet... It's been "released" for a couple days now.
That links downloads almost 70MB for me so it can't be right. I don't have time to investigate that. I am just saying
I've just contacted zen-kernel developers in IRC. Valid options to obtain the sources in ebuild now are: 1. Write live ebuild (to clone the branch from git and then build a kernel from it). 2. Download tarball from http://git.zen-kernel.org/zen-stable/snapshot/zen-stable-2.6.36-zen1.tar.bz2 (zen-kernel patch is also already applied to vanilla kernel in this case). 3. Ask developers to build a tarball with patchset that should be applied to vanilla kernel, if necessary. And they specially asked me to point out that git clone must be invoked with --depth 1 in case of live ebuild.
Well either way does not look good to me and I am really surprised that zen upstream now ships the whole patched kernel sources instead of the actual patches. Having said that, I am opposed to apply either the first or the second solution
So you can choose the third. Zen-kernel developers shown me a readiness to meet users' demands, so they will likely build the patchset tarball against vanilla kernel if you ask them.
Especially since you're our package maintainer. :)
I sent an e-mail on the ML. Lets wait
On tree now!
