On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:53:22PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:49:30PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:02:09PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > >
> > > That sounds "nice", but it seems to be a feature, and doesn't meet the
> > > main requirements of the stable tree.
> >
> > I thought you had said that some features had gone into the stable
> > kernel tree because distro's were shipping them? Or am I
> > misremembering what was discussed at the kernel summit?
>
> The "features" was performance speedups to the scheduler and mm layer.
> They were not new features being added.
But performance updates aren't bug fixes, either, and do represent
additional risk. I haven't been marking commits which represented
performance/scalability improvements in ext4 because I didn't think
that was in line with the stable kernel rules --- and I because didn't
think you would thank me if I did.... was I wrong?
Regards,
- Ted
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