2.6.24-rc1, "One of the Biggest -rc Releases Ever"

Jeremy — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:27:55 +0000

"This may count as one of the biggest -rc releases ever. It's humongous. Usually the compressed -rc1 diffs are in the 3-5MB range, with occasional smaller ones, and the occasional ones that top 6M, but this one is *eleven* megs," Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate of the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel. He summarized some of the changes, "in short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, but also tons of new drivers (wireless networking stands out, but is by no means the only thing - we've got dvb, regular wired network, mmc etc all joining in), and a fair amount or architecture stuff, filesystems, networking etc too." He added:

"In other words, I don't even know where to start. The big noticeable thing is the x86 merge, and I think we all fervently hope that it won't cause any issues. So far it's been pretty smooth sailing. Knock wood. Less smooth has the scatter-gather changes to the block layer been, but they are hopefully all in reasonable shape by now too. And the VM changes? I honestly hope nobody even notices. Same goes for some of the VFS layer changes that affected basically every filesystem (although in mostly very straightforward ways)."

SG Chaining Merged

Jeremy — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:56:24 +0000

"I think the SG stuff looks ok now, but I think we have a lot of 'fix up the rough edges' to go!" Linus Torvalds noted regarding some of the fallout from the recent merge of Jens Axboe's SG chaining patchset. During one of the many discussions, Jens explained:

"It's all about the end goal - having maintainable and resilient code. And I think the sg code will be better once we get past the next day or so, and it'll be more robust. That is what matters to me, not the simplicity of the patch itself."

Boaz Harrosh commented, "thanks Jens for doing all this, The performance gain is substantial and we will all enjoy it." Jens replied, "my pleasure, I just wish it could have been a little less painful. But in a day or two, it should all be behind us and we can move forward with making good use of it."

KernelTrap - sg chaining

2.6.24-rc1, "One of the Biggest -rc Releases Ever"

SG Chaining Merged