Re: [PATCH 00/97] Misc series of functional/performance fixes for 3.12-stable

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 27 2015 - 20:14:00 EST


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 07:34:08PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Kernel Summit 2014 had a topic on performance regressions and catching
> them. The situation relatively recently has been good but I believe this
> is partially due to major distributions stabilising recently and hardware
> vendors working on performance for their latest platforms. On thing I fear is
> that we miss performance regressions because releases contains performance
> gains and losses, some of which balance out. After a number of mainline
> releases, the performance may look ok but in comparison to a distribution
> kernel cherry-picking the picture is not as rosy. The 3.0-longterm
> included a number of performance-related patches so it could be used as
> a good performance baseline for later releases. It is no longer maintained.
>
> This series contains a large number of patches against 3.12-longterm that
> never made it to stable as the bugs were not serious enough or they were
> performance patches. 3.10-longterm may need other pre-requisites I did
> not research and 3.14-longterm should be able to apply a subset although
> I have not tested the result.
>

I've finally applied the rest of these to the 3.14-stable queue, thanks
again for providing them.

greg k-h
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