Re: [PATCH 0 of 5] PowerPC patches for 2.6.27

[Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Sunday 27 July 2008 10:50:38 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > Hi Avi, can these patches go upstream for 2.6.27? There's a bug fix,
> > the addition of hardware breakpoint functionality, and three very
> > significant performance improvements.
> >
> > By the way, I will be on vacation for a few weeks starting Monday, but
> > Christian Ehrhardt should be able to take care of any technical issues.
>
> Applied all; thanks.  I prefer to only merge bug fixes at this time for
> 2.6.27.  As far as I can tell, patch 2 is independent of the rest so
> I'll queue that.  Let me know if that works.

Yes these patches are independent - for the type question you can consider
1/5 - feature
2/5 - bug fix
3,4,5/5 - yeah what is it .. neither a pure bug fix nor a feature let's call 
it "performance fix"

We tested most of those performance fixes at least 1.5 Months now, having them 
applied while developing new things on top and I feel very good with 3&4.
It would be nice if at least the performance fixes 3&4 could go in now under 
the bug fix label too, but it's up to you.

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Grüsse / regards, 
Christian Ehrhardt
IBM Linux Technology Center, Open Virtualization