From: cliff white <cliffw@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT] please test the big post-2.6.5 merge
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:54:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040413125436.007cbcfe.cliffw@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <407C1DD8.5060909@pobox.com>
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:28 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> The snapshot 2.6.5-bk1 is out, and has a _ton_ of changes in it that
> have been waiting to go upstream for several weeks. This snapshot
> includes many more _major_ changes than most snapshots, so I wanted to
> call special attention to it, and request testing and feedback from
> linux-kernel denizens.
>
> Changelog describing the 457 changes in this snapshot:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.5-bk1.log
>
> Patch:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.5-bk1.bz2
>
> Short, jgarzik-generated list of major changes that probably want testing:
> * non-exec stack support
> * much better block I/O unplugging (I/O scalability)
> * laptop mode
> * lots of VM work (often related to I/O or Hugh's rmap/anonvma stuff)
> * 4K stacks
> * updated software suspend
> * early x86 boot changes
> * several ext2/ext3/jbd improvements
> * new "CFQ" I/O scheduler
> * queue congestion hooks
> * DM, MD fixes (some related to the queue congestion/unplugging changes)
> * posix message queue work from Manfred
> * lightweight auditing framework
> * reiserfs fixes and features
> * readahead tweaks and fixes
> * writeback tweaks
> * direct-IO and AIO fixes and speed-ups
> * shrinkage from Matt Mackall's -tiny tree
> * /dev/urandom scalability
> * update slab for per-arch alignments
> * initramfs fix
> * knfsd fixes and updates
> * nfs client fixes/updates
> * pcmcia update
> * SATA update
> * selinux update
> * v4l update
> * various arch updates: H8300, s/390, ppc32, ppc64, x86-64, nommu, arm, ...
>
>
We've added a bunch more STP runs against this kernel. Results should be coming out
this evening...
cliffw
OSDL
>
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2004-04-13 17:05 [RFT] please test the big post-2.6.5 merge Jeff Garzik
2004-04-13 19:54 ` cliff white [this message]
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2004-04-13 21:21 ` Jeff Garzik
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