On 19/07/13 03:32, Zhouping Liu wrote: > On 07/19/2013 01:36 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:57:26PM +0800, Zhouping Liu wrote: >>> On 07/18/2013 01:00 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> The patch below does not apply to the 3.10-stable tree. >>>> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm >>>> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit >>>> id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> Its prerequisite patch is: >>> 7c4c3a0f18b hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but >>> stopped) >>> how about also back-port this patch? >> I could do that, but from reading the changelog comments below, is this >> patch really needed for 3.10-stable? 3.11 seems to make sense, as some >> other code was using this api and causing problems, but that isn't in >> 3.10 from what I can tell, right? > > Agreed. > >> >> So, is it really needed for 3.10? > > I can't judge it, as I'm not similar for timer, but depending on the > patch's changelog comments, > it's a performance improved for Xen guest, so can anyone give some > comments about backporting > it to 3.10-stable? We do not want 7c4c3a0f18b (hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped)) backported to stable trees. Please take Thomas's backport instead. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html