Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 17:53:26 EST


Hi Marcelo,

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:41:46PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people
> > to upgrade, I guess...
>
> Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, handles intense loads more gracefully,

When a CPU-hungry task freezes another one for more than 13 seconds, I cannot
agree with your last statement, and that's why I still don't upgrade. I have
already posted examples of worst case scenarios, but I now start to have a
more meaningful example to show so that people working on the scheduler may
have something clearer to work with. I also did not have time to retest -ck
or staircase recently, but I will do for completeness.

> handles highmem decently, LSM/SELinux, etc, etc...
>
> IMO everyone should upgrade whenever appropriate.

I still know about a tens of 2.2 still running around at customers ;-)
However, if it had not been for lazyness, they should have upgraded.

Cheers,
Willy

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