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Re: A new 2.2 VS patch

To: Peter Kese <peter.kese@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A new 2.2 VS patch
Cc: linux-virtualserver@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:21:44 +0800
Hi Peter,

Thank you for the patch for kernel 2.2.

Peter Kese wrote:

> Dear folks...
>
> The Virtual Server patch development for the 2.2 kernel is
> continuing. Not only, that there had been some strong discussions
> about what to put into the comments of the files, some new code
> had also been written.
>
> I have decided to call it VS patch 0.2 for kernel 2.2.9 and
> I sincerely hope not too many bugs have escaped. However I am
> expecting some, as I always do when I keep changing the code
> until the very last moment before the release.
>
> Putting bugs to the side, my opinion is, that the 0.2 release
> is mostly feature complete. The most important things added to
> the code were the following:
>
> - tunneling,
> - TCP FIN packet detection,
> - improved performance of the WLC scheduling algorithm, by
>   ignoring expired (FIN) connections
> - PCC scheduling algorithm
>
> (When compiling the kernel take care of recompiling
>  and reinstalling the ipvsadm as well.)
>
> I would like to ask Wensong to fix the licensing,
> acknowledgments and change log in the code and put the patch
> to the Virtual Server web site so everyone can access it. Feel
> free to fix bugs too.
>

OK, it is done now. Check the LVS site yourself.

I will add the license to the files and fix the authoring information,
I will try to make everyone happy with it. I hope we can still do
cooperation on it. :)

>
> However I would like to stay the maintainer of the 2.2 patch
> for some more time, because I do have some more ideas about
> changing some things that weren't implemented in the best way.
> Later on, I wouldn't mind sharing the maintenance with someone
> else. If you have some more suggestions, please feel free to
> write.
>

OK.

I have some ideas too, and I will add them to the patch too.

>
> Also in the future I will try to do my best with responding
> to my mail and keep the track with the Virtual Server mailing
> list. I admit, I do have some problems by handling all the
> activities (job, kernel development, studies...) and sometimes
> can't bother by answering all the mail. I think the quarrel
> about change log of the new patch was partly due to that reason.
>

Great!

>
> And I still need to write the readme file!
>
> Enjoy,
>                         Peter

Thanks,

Wensong





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