Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc1

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Horst von Brand wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said:
> 
>>Hmm.. This is stuff all over the map, but most interesting (or at least
>>most "core") is probably the merging of the NUMA scheduler and the anonvma
>>rmap code. The latter gets rid of the expensive pte chains, and instead
>>allows reverse page mapping by keeping track of which vma (and offset)  
>>each page is associated with. Special kudos to Andrea Arcangeli and Hugh
>>Dickins.
>>
>>		Linus
> 
> 
> Not wanting to start a flamewar, but this sort of massive changes in a
> _stable_ series has got me quite confused... either 2.6.0 was premature, or
> the "just stabilize 2.6, new stuff only into 2.7 (when it opens)" got lost
> somewhere.


Linux has a tradition of completely rewriting the VM in the middle of a 
stable series, why not again?  :)

/me is joking, but similarly annoyed...

The VM, like the rest of the kernel, will _always_ be a work in 
progress.  A stable series should freeze us for bug fixing and 
stabilization...

	Jeff