Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263589AbUDMRFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263626AbUDMRFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:54 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:59835 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263589AbUDMRFl (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:41 -0400 Message-ID: <407C1DD8.5060909@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:05:28 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: [RFT] please test the big post-2.6.5 merge Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1730 Lines: 51 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, ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/