Re: stress test for parallel workers

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Anyway, I guess the interesting question for us is how long it
>> will take for this fix to propagate into real-world systems.
>> I don't have much of a clue about the Linux kernel workflow,
>> anybody want to venture a guess?

> Me neither. It just hit Torvalds' tree[1] marked "Cc:
> stable(at)vger(dot)kernel(dot)org # v2.6.27+". I looked at the time for a couple
> of other PowerPC-related commits of similar complexity involving some
> of the same names to get from there to a Debian stable kernel package
> and it seemed to be under a couple of months.
> [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63dee5df43a31f3844efabc58972f0a206ca4534

For our archives' sake: today I got seemingly-automated mail informing me
that this patch has been merged into the 4.19-stable, 5.4-stable,
5.7-stable, and 5.8-stable kernel branches; but not 4.4-stable,
4.9-stable, or 4.14-stable, because it failed to apply.

regards, tom lane