From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 May 2002 04:45:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 May 2002 04:45:13 -0400 Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.43]:30850 "EHLO mta03-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 May 2002 04:45:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3CE61651.3020006@notnowlewis.co.uk> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:52:33 +0100 From: mikeH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux-2.5.16 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Whats the state of ext3 in this release? I seem to remember reading there were some corruption issues. Thanks, mikeH Linus Torvalds wrote: >[ Testing the shortlog format, full changelogs on the kernel site ] > >Well, I dunno if the short changelog format is wonderfully readable, but >at least it's small enough that I don't feel bad about mailbombing the >kernel list with it. > >USB and architecture updates, IDE driver updates etc. The one that kept me >personally somewhat busy was the interesting Intel SMP-P4 TLB corruption >bug, which ends up being due to some very funky asynchronous speculative >TLB fill logic, which made the page table invalidation "exciting". > >The TLB invalidate rewrite will likely have broken all other architectures >(at least performance-wise, if not in any other way), so architecture >maintainers look out! > > Linus > >