Quote of the week
It's a pity: for a while we were thinking 2.6.11 would be a big
step forward for mainline latency; but it now looks to me like
these tests have come too late in the cycle to be dealt with
safely.
-- Hugh Dickins
It seems that a lock-breaking patch in the VM subsystem got pushed aside by
the four-level page table work, and thus didn't make it into 2.6.11. Hugh
has posted a fix, but, by the time it came,
2.6.11 was close enough that putting in locking changes didn't seem like a
good idea.