From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:44350 "EHLO hera.aquilenet.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754866AbdAHMwy (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2017 07:52:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 13:52:39 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: Greg KH Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Dietmar Eggemann , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Galbraith , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: sched/fair: Fix fixed point arithmetic width for shares and effective load Message-ID: <20170108125239.GB2641@var.home> References: <20170107203836.GJ2641@var.home> <20170108112918.GE12798@kroah.com> <20170108113248.GY2641@var.home> <20170108125122.GA19344@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170108125122.GA19344@kroah.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Greg KH, on Sun 08 Jan 2017 13:51:22 +0100, wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Greg KH, on Sun 08 Jan 2017 12:29:18 +0100, wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 09:38:36PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Please backport > > > > commit ab522e33f91799661aad47bebb691f241a9f6bb8 > > > > ('sched/fair: Fix fixed point arithmetic width for shares and effective load') > > > > to 4.8. > > > > > > As 4.8-stable is about to go end-of-life on Monday (tomorrow), > > > > Ah Ok. > > > > > can't you just use 4.9 instead? > > > > I can, but we have users which use various distributions. > > What distros are stuck on 4.8 that are not going to be moving to 4.9 > within a week or so that you care about? I don't know, but there are so many of them that you never know :) But given 4.8 is end-of-line, I now guess there won't be any. Samuel