Re: 2.31: glibc master is now kinda, sorta, frozen

[Chung-Lin Tang <chunglin_tang at mentor dot com>]

On 2020/1/6 11:46 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 06/01/20 9:11 pm, Chung-Lin Tang wrote:
> > as Carlos' review suggests, and what I'm working on right now, can this
> > still
> > make 2.31 as a non-default tunable option? Since the new algorithm does
> > have
> > some slight behavior difference, it may be better to make available earlier
> > than later for users to try.
> >
> > I will try to update the patches and respond to Carlos' review in detail
> > within
> > the week.
>
> I'm afraid that's going to be too long and too late.  The change is
> non-trivial and it needs more time to settle in master.  Please do
> continue the review process though since, like I said, you can always
> backport to 2.31 after the release.  New tunables can be backported
> since they're not considered part of ABI.
>
> Siddhesh
Okay I see, thanks for letting me know. I will still try to update the patches
for review soon.

Chung-Lin