Kernel prepatch 6.11-rc1

[Posted July 28, 2024 by corbet]

Linus Torvalds has released 6.11-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. "The merge window felt pretty normal, and the stats all look pretty normal too. I was expecting things to be quieter because of summer vacations, but that (still) doesn't actually seem to have been the case."

Note that the extensible scheduler class ("sched_ext") was not merged, even though Torvalds had said he would back in June. Sched_ext, it seems, will need another development cycle out of tree.

sched_ext

Posted Jul 29, 2024 13:18 UTC (Mon) by tamiko (subscriber, #115350) [Link] (2 responses)

Does someone know more about sched_ext? It seems that simply no new revision has been posted for Linus to merge? Or did I miss the discussion (searching the mailing list is a nightmare)?

sched_ext

Posted Jul 29, 2024 13:25 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

There was an extensive discussion that aired a lot of frustration but did not reach any definitive conclusions. My best reading of the situation is that one more development cycle will be taken to address some concerns with the code before it goes upstream.

sched_ext

Posted Jul 29, 2024 19:54 UTC (Mon) by tamiko (subscriber, #115350) [Link]

Thank you for the summary!