Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:35:47 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [4.2] commit d59cfc09c32 (sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem) causes regression for libvirt/kvm |
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 09:24:15PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Paul. > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:38:18PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Well, the decision as to what is too big for -stable is owned by the > > -stable maintainers, not by me. > > Is it tho? Usually the subsystem maintainer knows the best and has > most say in it. I was mostly curious whether you'd think that the > changes would be too risky. If not, great.
I do hope that they would listen to what I thought about it, but at the end of the day, it is the -stable maintainers who pull a given patch, or don't.
> > I am suggesting trying the options and seeing what works best, then > > working to convince people as needed. > > Yeah, sure thing. Let's wait for Christian.
Indeed. Is there enough benefit to risk jamming this thing into 4.3? I believe that 4.4 should be a no-brainer.
Thanx, Paul
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