Re: the stuttering regression in 7.0: should I have done something different?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 06:30:24PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Linus, Greg, if you have a minute, please help me out with something I'm
> wondering about:
> 
> Should I have done something different wrt. to the periodic lockup aka
> stuttering regression? The one quite a few users encountered, bisected,
> and reported last week following the 7.0 release before it was fixed in
> mainline & 7.0.1 during the first half of this week; see below for a
> timeline of the whole thing.
> 
> I'm not asking if this could have been prevented or if the developers
> did anything wrong handling this. I ask because I want to do the right
> thing if similar situations arise in the future to ensure they are
> handled like you folks want them to.

I think this went fine.  It was caught properly, and fixed, and pushed
out to users pretty quickly.  We can't really ask for more :)

thanks,

greg k-h