“As everybody knows by now, not only did I do an -rc7 last week
instead of releasing 3.0 (due to some worries about the RCU code),
but I ended up also not doing the 3.0 on Monday because of a
pathname lookup bug and then some _more_ RCU issues.“Anyway, those should all be resolved and the fixes merged now,
and I’m not really all that nervous about the pathname lookup issue
– I think that got nailed, and the patch for that was literally
just moving a single line (and adding a comment).The RCU issues worries me a bit, but everything says it’s all
good, and the biggest issues were with the new RCU_BOOST feature
that really neither defaults to on, nor is suggested right now. So
I think we’re ok, and I’m planning on doing 3.0 tomorrow.
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