LWN: Comments on "2.6.39 merge window, part 2"

2.6.39 merge window, part 2

cthart — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:56:28 +0000

Methinks the next kernel should be labeled version 3.0 in celebration of this fact.
Wasn't 2.0 the first to support SMP with the BKL?

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nlucas — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:18:14 +0000

Now it's the time for some fortune teller to update his 2011 prediction web page and add the BKL removal on the Linux kernel. :-D

Not even LWN dare to predict it this year. Maybe because they felt they were overly optimistic with their earlier -rt merging prediction.

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nix — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:30:21 +0000

This is Jon being modest 'cos of the amount of work he put into it, I think.

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naptastic — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:38:19 +0000

Yes, that's what it was, and it was in last week's summary, not this weeks. Thank you!

I probably missed it because it's being billed as a debugging feature; the editor omits the potential latency improvement this change could bring.

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BenHutchings — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:56:51 +0000

Receive flow steering is not new. The new feature is the hook for hardware acceleration, which I described briefly in the commit message and comments: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/184332/

Intel Arrandale

ncm — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:24:40 +0000

The fixes for i915 drm drivers that enable people to use laptops with Intel's built-in graphics system are supposed to all find their way into 2.6.39. We can hope they will then be backported to the maintained 2.6.3x.y releases. Meanwhile, the action has shifted to supporting Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics system.

Experiences with the i915 driver make me nostalgic for the late '90s. Intel still has room for improvement in providing drivers coincident with the hardware release. Thanks to all for the lots o' hard work.

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abacus — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:52:48 +0000

Maybe it's the Moving interrupts to threads work ?

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ortalo — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:02:52 +0000

Hey: BKL removal and just a single line in a merge summary? Haven't all past and present kernel developpers gathered on the beach drinking and dancing all night around camp fire for celebration?

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naptastic — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:57:49 +0000

I've heard that a largeish body of work from the realtime tree got merged, but I don't see anything about that here. Did it happen? I tried looking through a few git pages but I don't know how to sift through it efficiently to find what I'm looking for.

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knan — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:05:05 +0000

Whee, ipset merged! Congratulations Jozsef & others!

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sasha — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:17:17 +0000

Entry about "receive flow steering" should have a link to http://lwn.net/Articles/382428/. The article is almost a year old, but I hope it is mostly correct.