Re: [elrepo] Kernel packages update cadence

2018-07-11 Thread Pedro Flores
Thanks everyone for your responses. I do feel better now about relying on ELRepo's kernels for our particular use case based on your experiences. -- On 7/11/18, 7:47 AM, "elrepo-boun...@lists.elrepo.org on behalf of Robin P. Blanchard" wrote: We run kernel-ml in production on

Re: [elrepo] Kernel packages update cadence

2018-07-11 Thread Robin P. Blanchard
We run kernel-ml in production on physical (HP MoonShot, Cisco UCS M) and virtual machines. Our primary push was for all the updated CIFS support in kernels > 4.11. On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:13 AM Lachlan Musicman wrote: > > While not to the same level of automation and install numbers, we run it

Re: [elrepo] Kernel packages update cadence

2018-07-11 Thread Lachlan Musicman
While not to the same level of automation and install numbers, we run it on 50-100 serves updating monthly and can report a similar experience and level of satisfaction. We've had one major issue when Intel fixed it's HMM to behave as advertised but again, a quick google and we were good within

Re: [elrepo] Kernel packages update cadence

2018-07-11 Thread Sam McLeod
Pedro, As Phil says, the kernels are provided 'as-is', but I'd like to give you a quick sample of how we've found it in production. We run anywhere between 250-2000 CentOS 7 VMs each year. We have been using elrepo kernel-ml on both our VMs and our physical SANs / storage servers and our

Re: [elrepo] Kernel packages update cadence

2018-07-10 Thread Phil Perry
On 10/07/18 18:57, Pedro Flores wrote: We recently started using ELRepo’s kernel repositories in a subset of our production infrastructure to deal with some issues we were experiencing with CentOS 7.5 latest kernels.  Our security team has some concerns about how quickly ElRepo releases new

[elrepo] Kernel packages update cadence

2018-07-10 Thread Pedro Flores
We recently started using ELRepo’s kernel repositories in a subset of our production infrastructure to deal with some issues we were experiencing with CentOS 7.5 latest kernels. Our security team has some concerns about how quickly ElRepo releases new kernel packages that address either major