Linux 6.11-rc2 Addresses A Lot Of "Silly Noise"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.11-rc2 Addresses A Lot Of "Silly Noise"

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.11 is now available for testing...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-rc2-Released

[muncrief]

This makes me angry.

Because I love silly noise.

In fact I make a lot of it myself

And good god, often I even record it

[WileEPyote]

Well damn. Looking through the list of fixes, it's no wonder I was having such a hard time trying to get a bootable build. Some of the fixes seem to be deps or strongly related to some the kernel config options I use. Hopefully I won't spend 12 hours getting rc2 to work. lol

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

I'm hoping a RC8 isn't needed for this or 6.12, so the latter releases as early as possible giving it even more of a chance to be the next LTS. I'm also still holding out hope that sched_ext makes it into 6.12, but that looks less likely after the 6.11 comments .

[WileEPyote]

I'm hoping a RC8 isn't needed for this or 6.12, so the latter releases as early as possible giving it even more of a chance to be the next LTS. I'm also still holding out hope that sched_ext makes it into 6.12, but that looks less likely after the 6.11 comments .

You can still patch it in yourself and use it. It's really not all that hard to do.

It's actually stupid easy on arch. Couple of lines in the PKGBUILD

[cl333r]

This makes me angry.

Because I love silly noise.

In fact I make a lot of it myself

And good god, often I even record it

..and uploading it on only fans?

[DooMMasteR]

I gave 6.11rc1 a chance and noticed that CIFS was basically not working, speeds were around 250 kBytes/s instead of the usual 112 Minutes/s I would expect over Ethernet.

Let's hope rc2 fixes this issue already... gonna test it later.

[fong38]

I gave 6.11rc1 a chance and noticed that CIFS was basically it working, speeds were around 250 kBytes/s instead of the usual 112 Minutes/s I would expect over Ethernet.

Let's hope rc2 fixes this issue already... gonna test it later.

I had a kernel oops in some networking related module (I have a Mediatek network card) which caused everything to seriously slow down, rc2 fixed that issue.

[WileEPyote]

I had a kernel oops in some networking related module (I have a Mediatek network card) which caused everything to seriously slow down, rc2 fixed that issue.

Mine machine ran nice and fast, but it had the hiccups. lol. It would hesitate every 30 sec or so like clockwork. Just booted into a different kernel until I feel up to compiling 2.

[DooMMasteR]

I had a kernel oops in some networking related module (I have a Mediatek network card) which caused everything to seriously slow down, rc2 fixed that issue.

Speed otherwise was nice, only my CIFS mounts (SMB3.x) were slow as hell.
I have an Intel AX 211 in the machine, but also tried ethernet to rule that one out as a source of the issue.
Rolled back to 6.10.3 and all is fine for now.