From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751472Ab1BJGio (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:38:44 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:60461 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750837Ab1BJGin (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:38:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:38:37 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Mike Galbraith Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.58 Message-ID: <20110210063837.GI16288@1wt.eu> References: <20110209220430.GA17820@hera.kernel.org> <1297315686.7996.50.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1297315686.7996.50.camel@marge.simson.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Mike, On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:28:06AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 22:04 +0000, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I've just released Linux 2.6.27.58. > > For users of 27 who wish the scheduler had a bit less overhead, attached > is a small set of sched patches I considered mandatory for my 27 tree. > First patch cuts overhead quite a bit, the others are just fixes I > considered important enough to carry around. > > I'm not proposing inclusion, just making it available once because I > happened to notice this release message, and thought of some issues. That's very kind of you, I appreciate it. Indeed, it can interest some users. I too would rather avoid to merge them, since scheduler changes can improve some workloads and cause unexpected regressions in other ones. However, if people insist and only report positive feedback, we might possibly consider them. I'll definitely test them in my tree ;-) Thanks! Willy