On 19/11/2019 19:29, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 5:58 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org
> <mailto:ma...@apache.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 19/11/2019 00:44, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:

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>     > I think the single pollset change should not be backported to
>     Tomcat 7.
>     > I am OK with it being backported to Tomcat 8.5.
> 
>     In favour of back-porting:
>     - It keeps the code (more) aligned so future maintenance is easier
>     - It is more obvious where previous APR fixes have not been back-ported
>       (as well as being easier to back-port them). I can see a handful of
>       fixes it would be worth back-porting
>     - Windows XP / Server 2003 are out of support. I think it would be
>       unusual for a user to be keeping Tomcat up to date but not the OS.
>     - sendfile is already using a larger pollset size and we have had no
>       complaints (that I recall)
> 
>     I've just finished back-porting the single pollset change. I want to
>     backport the additional fixes I can now see and then run the unit tests.
> 
>     I'd like to then commit these changes but I can do it via a PR if folks
>     want a chance to review them first.
> 
> 
> +1 for attempting it, if you're comfortable about it it should be fine.

FYI, the single pollset changes back-ported easily along with one other
fix. The other fixes were not as clean so I decided to leave them for now.

Mark

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