Linux 3.0-rc4 Fixes A Couple Performance Regressions

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 21 June 2011 at 06:58 AM EDT. 4 Comments
LINUX KERNEL
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the Linux 3.0-rc4 kernel.

Besides the usual bug-fixes to the drivers, file-systems, and other areas of the kernel for being mid-way in this kernel's development cycle, there's also a couple performance regression fixes noted by Torvalds.

These performance regressions relate to RCU not needing threads and the conversion from spin-locks to mutexes in a particular area had caused scalability issues.

Besides that, there's various fixes in the DRM area for the open-source graphics drivers, Btrfs file-system fixes, and much more.

Read more in the Linux 3.0 release candidate 4 announcement on the Linux kernel mailing list.
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