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So the big change during 2.6.21 is all the timer changes to support a
tickless system (and even with ticks, more varied time sources). Thanks
(when it no longer broke for lots of people
go to Thomas Gleixner and
Ingo Molnar and a cadre of testers and coders.
Of course, the timer stuff was just the most painful and core part (and
thus the one that I remember most): there's a lot of changes all over. The
appended changelog is just for the fixes since -rc7, so that doesn't look
very impressive, the full changes since 2.6.20 are obviously a *lot*
bigger (and you're better off reading the individual -rc changelogs).
We now return you to your regular scheduler discussions,
Linus
tickless system (and even with ticks, more varied time sources). Thanks
(when it no longer broke for lots of people
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Ingo Molnar and a cadre of testers and coders.
Of course, the timer stuff was just the most painful and core part (and
thus the one that I remember most): there's a lot of changes all over. The
appended changelog is just for the fixes since -rc7, so that doesn't look
very impressive, the full changes since 2.6.20 are obviously a *lot*
bigger (and you're better off reading the individual -rc changelogs).
We now return you to your regular scheduler discussions,
Linus