Re: [RFC GIT PULL] NUMA-balancing memory corruption fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Nov 01 2013 - 03:36:56 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ( If you think this is too dangerous for too little benefit then
> > I'll drop this separate tree and will send the original commits in
> > the merge window. )
>
> Ugh. I hate hate hate the timing, and this is much larger and
> scarier than what I'd like at this point, but I don't see the
> point to delaying this either.

Yeah, it's pretty close to worst-case timing. I tried to accelerate
the fixes as much as I dared, I wasn't even back from the KS yet but
at another conference, doing all preparation and testing remotely
:-/ Still the timing sucks.

> So I'm pulling them. And then I may end up doing an rc8 after all.

Thanks for pulling them!

Ingo
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