linux-kernel - Re: [RFC GIT PULL] NUMA-balancing memory corruption fixes

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Message-ID: <20131101073648.GD21471@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:36:48 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Tom Weber <l_linux-kernel@...l2news.4t2.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL] NUMA-balancing memory corruption fixes


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ( If you think this is too dangerous for too little benefit then
> >   I'll drop this separate tree and will send the original commits in
> >   the merge window. )
> 
> Ugh. I hate hate hate the timing, and this is much larger and 
> scarier than what I'd like at this point, but I don't see the 
> point to delaying this either.

Yeah, it's pretty close to worst-case timing. I tried to accelerate 
the fixes as much as I dared, I wasn't even back from the KS yet but 
at another conference, doing all preparation and testing remotely
:-/ Still the timing sucks.

> So I'm pulling them. And then I may end up doing an rc8 after all.

Thanks for pulling them!

	Ingo
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