Re: [PATCH 00/34] Memory management performance backports for -stable V2

Hillf Danton
2012-07-24T13:18:18Z

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> FWIW, I'm all for performance backports. They do have a downside though
> (other than the risk of bugs slipping in, or triggering latent bugs).
>
> When the next enterprise kernel is built, marketeers ask for numbers to
> make potential customers drool over, and you _can't produce any_ because
> you wedged all the spiffy performance stuff into the crusty old kernel.
>
Well do your job please.

Suse 11 SP1 kernel panic on HP hardware