[kernel-xen] 3.18 kernel for blk-mq (and other features)

[Glenn Enright]

Indeed. Would love to see some feedback from others here as well.

How about the el7 kernel, had you already 'settled' on 3.14 there as 
well? Would it be easier to do a version bump on that one?

Best, Glenn

On 04/21/15 18:39, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 21/04/2015 1:21 PM, Glenn Enright wrote:
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> Would it be possible to get a 3.18 kernel (latest longterm) into your
>> testing repo please? There seem to be a lot of io related features (eg
>> blk-mq) added to that which are very attractive for a VM host.
>>
>> I know 4.0 is just out and is not a long term release, but if you want
>> to build that instead we would be happy to test it out also :).
>
> I'm still mulling over the changes to see if its worthwhile switching
> the branch from 3.14 to 3.18.
>
> The joys of the current release system of the linux kernel is that we
> now have 7 'long term' streams on which to keep up to date with.
> Obviously, that's pretty impractical.
>
> 3.14 was the stable long term I chose early on - but I'm happy to get
> feedback into the proposal to change this to the 3.18 branch by members
> of this list. After all, it does affect everyone using my packages.
>
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