Linux 4.7 Kernel Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.7 Kernel Officially Released

As expected, the Linux 4.7 kernel was officially released this Sunday afternoon...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.7-Released

[elapsed]

Still far too much assembly code I see.

[uid313]

[haagch]

ctrl+f "gamma"
No results.

I hope they did fix it or redshift users will be disappointed by that regression.

[chuckula]

WTF is 231 lines of Pascal doing in the Kernel?
Or did the auto tool just misclassify the file?

[fuzz]

ctrl+f "gamma"
No results.

I hope they did fix it or redshift users will be disappointed by that regression.

Are you talking about this? For i915?

[Amarildo]

Can anyone confirm that there is no high HD usage with this Kernel?

[duby229]

Can anyone confirm that there is no high HD usage with this Kernel?

What do you mean? Disk thrashing? I haven't noticed anything abnormal, but it may well be a situational thing.

[Amarildo]

What do you mean? Disk thrashing? I haven't noticed anything abnormal, but it may well be a situational thing.

When I tried 4.7-rc7 the hard-drive usage was way above normal, I don't really know why.

[duby229]

When I tried 4.7-rc7 the hard-drive usage was way above normal, I don't really know why.

iotop may help identify which process is responsible, but it may not be userspace. What FS did you see this on?