Re: v2.6 vs v3.0

Jens Axboe
2002-09-29T09:15:42Z

On Sat, Sep 28 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > i consider the VM and IO improvements one of the most important things
> > that happened in the past 5 years - and it's definitely something that
> > users will notice. Finally we have a top-notch VM and IO subsystem (in
> > addition to the already world-class networking subsystem) giving
> > significant improvements both on the desktop and the server - the jump
> > from 2.4 to 2.5 is much larger than from eg. 2.0 to 2.4.
>
> Hey, _if_ people actually are universally happy with the VM in the current
> 2.5.x tree, I'll happily call the dang thing 5.0 or whatever (just
> kidding, but yeah, that would be a good enough reason to bump the major
> number).

Works For Me, at _least_ as well as 2.4.20-pre kernels. On my desktop
machine it feels better. After a few days of uptime it's fairly easy to
feel how well a kernel performs for that workload. And 2.5.39 is just
smoother than current 2.4.

> The block IO cleanups are important, and that was the major thing _I_
> personally wanted from the 2.5.x tree when it was opened. I agree with you
> there. But I don't think they are major-number-material.

Dang :-)

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Jens Axboe, rooting for 3.x