linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.35

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Date:	Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:33:22 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.35

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 04:52:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On a slightly happier note: one thing I do hope we can merge in the
> upcoming merge window is Nick Piggin's cool VFS scalability series.
> I've been using it on my own machine, and gone through all the commits
> (not that I shouldn't go through some of them some more), and am
> personally really excited about it. It's seldom we see major
> performance improvements in core code that are quite that noticeable,
> and Nick's whole RCU pathname lookup in particular just tickles me
> pink.

There hasn't been nearly enough review or testing of this patch
series yet.  Before a merge, it needs to be split up in smaller,
more digestable chunks for more comprehensive review, regression
testing and behavioural analysis.

There's probably only a handful of people who have done any testing
on the patchset so far, and given the widespread changes it needs a
lot more testing than this before we should consider merging any of
it.

I really want to see this move forward too, but it changes lots of
critical infrastructure in subtle ways and so, IMO, this is not
a patchset we should be gung-ho about.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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