Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:28 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | [RFT] please test the big post-2.6.5 merge |
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The snapshot 2.6.5-bk1 is out, and has a _ton_ of changes in it that have been waiting to go upstream for several weeks. This snapshot includes many more _major_ changes than most snapshots, so I wanted to call special attention to it, and request testing and feedback from linux-kernel denizens.
Changelog describing the 457 changes in this snapshot: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.5-bk1.log
Patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.5-bk1.bz2
Short, jgarzik-generated list of major changes that probably want testing: * non-exec stack support * much better block I/O unplugging (I/O scalability) * laptop mode * lots of VM work (often related to I/O or Hugh's rmap/anonvma stuff) * 4K stacks * updated software suspend * early x86 boot changes * several ext2/ext3/jbd improvements * new "CFQ" I/O scheduler * queue congestion hooks * DM, MD fixes (some related to the queue congestion/unplugging changes) * posix message queue work from Manfred * lightweight auditing framework * reiserfs fixes and features * readahead tweaks and fixes * writeback tweaks * direct-IO and AIO fixes and speed-ups * shrinkage from Matt Mackall's -tiny tree * /dev/urandom scalability * update slab for per-arch alignments * initramfs fix * knfsd fixes and updates * nfs client fixes/updates * pcmcia update * SATA update * selinux update * v4l update * various arch updates: H8300, s/390, ppc32, ppc64, x86-64, nommu, arm, ...
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