Atop patches

[John Johansen]

On 06/22/2010 05:09 PM, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 08:29 -0700, John Johansen wrote:
>> The server team has requested that we look at including the atop patches
>> as part of the kernel.
>>
>> http://atoptool.nl/downloadpatch.php
>>
>> This is a nice to feature, but not a requirement.  [...]
> 
> 
> The atop patch set at the URL above is based on 2.6.33.
> 
> It applies cleanly to the current Maverick kernel (2.6.35-5.7).
> 
> (It does not apply quite cleanly to the Lucid kernel (2.6.32-23.37) but
> was trivial to port, fwiw).
> 
> Smoke test of the enhanced atop functionality (in both Maverick and
> Lucid) looks fine.  My test kernels are here, if anyone else would like
> to give them a spin:  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kamal/atoppatch/
> 
> In short: This looks okay to me.  So... what's the next step?
> 
Kamal thanks for picking this up,

The next step is for the kernel team to decide if we will include these patches
as part of the kernel.  I'll set up a pull request to get that discussion going.

john