On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:04:28PM +0200, dragoran wrote: > > Most of the scary stuff (new libata pata drivers etc), we'd keep off, > > so things shouldn't be too bad. The timer changes for tickless are > > probably the only remaining scary thing. For that we have a few choices. > > - Leave NO_HZ off. > > Feature parity with FC6, though the code has still changed, and > > may still find regressions. Probably the safest option. > > - Turn NO_HZ on. > > Early preview of F7 features, saves power yadayada, may find new > > bugs. (Gets us that nice fuzzy 'f6 bugs are f7 bugs' bonus though) > > > what kind of bugs would this trigger? crashes? or "only" some weird > timer/clock issues? all sorts of things rely on timers, so it could manifest itself in any number of ways. > if this is done does this also mean that we can backport x86_64 tickless > for F7 when its ready? Given its still not upstream, it'll likely be a while before it lands in FC6. It'll get backported to F7 first after GA, but first it needs to land in Linus' tree. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
