On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 03:13:44PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 08:43:02PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > We've unconditionally used the queued spinlock for many releases now. > > Like since 4.2? Yeah, that seems to be the right number. > I don't know of any enterprise distro that is shipping anything > more modern than 4.1? RHEL 7 -- v3.10 SLES 12 -- v3.12 Debian Jessie -- v3.16 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS -- v4.4 But waiting for the major enterprise distros (RHEL/SLES) would mean another decade or so before people start using it. We don't usually wait this long for anything. > Perhaps it would be good to wait until they > at least ship and then give them some time to see if they have found > any issues? My motivation was that people keep trying to send patches against the ticket lock code... David did just today, and he's not the first. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
