Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753392AbXJJGMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:12:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751827AbXJJGMW (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:12:22 -0400 Received: from alnrmhc13.comcast.net ([206.18.177.53]:52357 "EHLO alnrmhc13.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751694AbXJJGMW (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:12:22 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23 From: Nicholas Miell To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:12:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1191996740.8694.7.camel@entropy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7.0.njm.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1744 Lines: 41 On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 13:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Finally. > > Yeah, it got delayed, not because of any huge issues, but because of > various bugfixes trickling in and causing me to reset my "release clock" > all the time. But it's out there now, and hopefully better for the wait. > > Not a whole lot of changes since -rc9, although there's a few updates to > mips, sparc64 and blackfin in there. Ignoring those arch updates, there's > basically a number of mostly one-liners (mostly in drivers, but there's > some networking fixes and soem VFS/VM fixes there too). > > Shortlog and diffstat appended (both relative to -rc9, of course - the > full log from 2.6.22 is on kernel.org as usual). > > I want this to be what people look at for a few days, but expect the x86 > merge to go ahead after that. So far, all indications are still that it's > going to be all smooth sailing, but hey, those indicators seem to always > say that, and only after the fact do people notice any problems ;) > > Linus Does CFS still generate the following sysbench graphs with 2.6.23, or did that get fixed? http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/linux-pgsql.png http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/linux-mysql.png (There's also some interesting FreeBSD vs. Linux graphs in http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Scalability%20Update.pdf , but AFAIK those comparisons are more indicative of glibc malloc performance than Linux performance.) -- Nicholas Miell - 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/