linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.4.110

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Date:   Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:55:07 +0100
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, lwn@....net,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.4.110

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.110 kernel.
> 
> All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade.
> 
> But be careful, there have been some reports of problems with this
> release during the -rc review cycle.  Hopefully all of those issues are
> now resolved.
> 
> So please test, as of right now, it should be "bug compatible" with the
> "enterprise" kernel releases with regards to the Meltdown bug and proper
> support on all virtual platforms (meaning there is still a vdso issue
> that might trip up some old binaries, again, please test!)
> 
> If anyone has any problems, please let me know.

FWIW I've just booted one of our LBs on it and am hammering it at full
load with pti enabled and will let it run for the week-end. It takes
860k irq/s and about 1.7M syscalls/s. For now it works well (but slowly).
Hopefully if there are any rare race conditions left it has a chance to
trigger them.

Willy