[regression] 3.0-rc boot failure -- bisected to cd4ea6ae3982

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Thu Jul 21 02:04:00 EST 2011


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl> wrote:
>
> Right, so we can either merge my scary patches now and have 3.0 boot on
> 16+ node machines (and risk breaking something), or delay them until
> 3.0.1 and have 16+ node machines suffer a little.

So how much impact does your scary patch have on machines that don't
have multiple nodes? If it's a "the code isn't even called by normal
machines" kind of setup, I don't think I care a lot.

                  Linus


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