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Retro-reason for 3.0Retro-reason for 3.0Posted Jul 28, 2011 10:12 UTC (Thu) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033)Parent article: Kernel release status
Something very significant did happen just before the number change. The big kernel lock went away. Given the amount of time it took to make it disappear, I'm surprised this wasn't used as the reason that the kernel major version is now 3.
Is there anything else that almost everyone agrees needs to be fixed, and everyone knows will be a long haul? That should be the target for 4.0.
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Retro-reason for 3.0 Posted Jul 28, 2011 11:12 UTC (Thu) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link]
Yes, but ... agreeing something should be fixed, doesn't mean there's agreement on how to fix it! :)
Look at all the steam that's arisen out of "interactivity" VM paging & OOM killing issues for instance.
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