On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:02:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
This is in the SLES kernel for a reason, and again, it's in the section that says "this should be pushed to stable". So if it's good enough for the SLES kernel, why isn't it good enough for all users of this kernel tree?
Heh, fair enough. I guess Mel in the end didn't find patches worthy enough to be pushed to stable tree. But at least now I know they are well tested with 4.4 base so they should do no harm in the stable tree so my stance is closer to neutral.
Early on, I backported a number of performance patches to -stable with the view to having a good baseline to compare a new mainline release with. However, after a while some of them required unrelated backports that would be excessive for -stable. While I could have continued backporting some patches, I stopped as the time required to run all of the performance tests is excessive and I was already tracking too many kernels.