Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/fair: alternative way of accounting throttle time

Jan Kiszka
2025-05-08T06:13:43Z

On 08.05.25 04:45, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Florian Bezdeka wrote:
>> To sum up: This series fixes (or seems to fix, let's wait for one more
>> week to be sure) a critical RT issue. Is there a chance that once we
>> made it into mainline that we see (official) backports? 6.12 or 6.1
>> would be nice.
>
> I don't think there will be official backports if this series entered
> mainline because stable kernels only take fixes while this series changed
> throttle behavior dramatically. Of course, this is just my personal
> view, and the maintainer will make the final decision.

With 6.12 carrying RT in-tree and this patches serious fixing a hard
lock-up of that configuration, a backport to 6.12-stable would be
required IMHO. Backports beyond that should be a topic for the
(separate) rt-stable trees.

Jan

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