From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263309AbUEWSdh (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 14:33:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263324AbUEWSdh (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 14:33:37 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:16605 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263309AbUEWSdf (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 14:33:35 -0400 Message-ID: <40B0EE6C.70400@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:33:16 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc1 References: <200405231619.i4NGJBe18903@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200405231619.i4NGJBe18903@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> 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 Horst von Brand wrote: > Linus Torvalds 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