On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:02:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > This is in the SLES kernel for a reason, and again, it's in the section > > that says "this should be pushed to stable". So if it's good enough for > > the SLES kernel, why isn't it good enough for all users of this kernel > > tree? > > Heh, fair enough. I guess Mel in the end didn't find patches worthy enough > to be pushed to stable tree. But at least now I know they are well tested > with 4.4 base so they should do no harm in the stable tree so my stance is > closer to neutral. >
Early on, I backported a number of performance patches to -stable with the view to having a good baseline to compare a new mainline release with. However, after a while some of them required unrelated backports that would be excessive for -stable. While I could have continued backporting some patches, I stopped as the time required to run all of the performance tests is excessive and I was already tracking too many kernels. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
