LWN: Comments on "What's holding up 2.6.14: two difficult bugs"

This incident

Baylink — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:16:26 +0000

Is going to crop up in arguments about "software engineering" WRT the kernel.

I'm not sure what part it will play, or what the right answer will be, but I know we'll hear about it in the trade press in the next 6 months, probably as a quote from some "analyst".

We ought to give a little thought to capsulizing what the answer will be.

What's holding up 2.6.14: two difficult bugs

klossner — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:27:08 +0000

Building the kernel on a multi-CPU system with `make -j' so that many processors are used, each compiling a few source files.

What's holding up 2.6.14: two difficult bugs

markryde — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:20:48 +0000

Hello,

>it evidently can cause highly-parallel kernel builds

Sorry for my ignorance: can someone explain in few sentences
what are highly-parallel kernel builds ?
-- R