Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:54:36 -0700 | From | cliff white <> | Subject | Re: [RFT] please test the big post-2.6.5 merge |
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:28 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> > The snapshot 2.6.5-bk1 is out, and has a _ton_ of changes in it that > have been waiting to go upstream for several weeks. This snapshot > includes many more _major_ changes than most snapshots, so I wanted to > call special attention to it, and request testing and feedback from > linux-kernel denizens. > > Changelog describing the 457 changes in this snapshot: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.5-bk1.log > > Patch: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.5-bk1.bz2 > > Short, jgarzik-generated list of major changes that probably want testing: > * non-exec stack support > * much better block I/O unplugging (I/O scalability) > * laptop mode > * lots of VM work (often related to I/O or Hugh's rmap/anonvma stuff) > * 4K stacks > * updated software suspend > * early x86 boot changes > * several ext2/ext3/jbd improvements > * new "CFQ" I/O scheduler > * queue congestion hooks > * DM, MD fixes (some related to the queue congestion/unplugging changes) > * posix message queue work from Manfred > * lightweight auditing framework > * reiserfs fixes and features > * readahead tweaks and fixes > * writeback tweaks > * direct-IO and AIO fixes and speed-ups > * shrinkage from Matt Mackall's -tiny tree > * /dev/urandom scalability > * update slab for per-arch alignments > * initramfs fix > * knfsd fixes and updates > * nfs client fixes/updates > * pcmcia update > * SATA update > * selinux update > * v4l update > * various arch updates: H8300, s/390, ppc32, ppc64, x86-64, nommu, arm, ... > >
We've added a bunch more STP runs against this kernel. Results should be coming out this evening... cliffw OSDL
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