From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:33:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests Message-Id: <20041202103347.68b08352.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041202182716.GE25359@esmail.cup.hp.com> References: <41AEB44D.2040805@pobox.com> <20041201223441.3820fbc0.akpm@osdl.org> <20041202182716.GE25359@esmail.cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Grant Grundler Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, clameter@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Grant Grundler wrote: > > 2.6.odd/.even release described above is a variant of 2.6.10.n releases > where n = {0, 1}. The question is how many parallel releases do people > (you and linus) want us keep "alive" at the same time? 2.6.odd/.even is actually a significantly different process. a) because there's only one tree, linearly growing. That's considerably simpler than maintaining a branch. And b) because everyone knows that there won't be a new development tree opened until we've all knuckled down and fixed the bugs which we put into the previous one, dammit. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org