Re: stress test for parallel workers

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mark Wong <mark(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: stress test for parallel workers
Date: 2020-08-11 04:38:58
Message-ID: CA+hUKGLXhGHWCzSvvq93b27jttL5z0c43B9DXafxGwWjeOrh1w@mail.gmail.com
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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

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