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

[Steven Haigh]

Essentially, yes.

The EL6 and EL7 packages are all built from the same source. The magic
within the rpm SPEC file will do the correct thing depending on if its
built with EL6 or EL7 as the target.

As such, to make things easy, if the EL6 packages change to the 3.18
kernel tree, then the EL7 packages will follow.

I really would like feedback from others - as much as it sounds good to
have a consensus on the way forward, a consensus of two is not exactly
ideal :\

On 23/04/2015 1:57 PM, Glenn Enright wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Steven Haigh
>>
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