From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264215AbUEMNl3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 09:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264213AbUEMNl3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 09:41:29 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:51126 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264192AbUEMNjc (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 09:39:32 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm2 From: Chris Mason To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040513131842.GC22202@fs.tum.de> References: <20040513032736.40651f8e.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513114520.A8442@infradead.org> <20040513035134.2e9013ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513121206.A8620@infradead.org> <20040513042540.073478ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513131842.GC22202@fs.tum.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1084455572.2583.395.camel@watt.suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:39:32 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 09:18, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:25:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Wim explained that any application changes now won't be widely deployed for > > another year. During that period the ability to run existing Oracle setups > > requires that hugepage allocation be available to unprivileged > > applications. > >... > > It means that if people install a kernel.org machine on their database > > server, the database *just won't work*. This is not good for those users, > > for the kernel developers or for Linux's reputation in general. > >... > > That sounds silly when talking about Oracle. > > Oracle says: > Which Kernels are supported? > > Oracle does not support modified or recompiled kernels. Recompiled > kernels are not supported with or without source modifications. > > > I doubt there are many "existing Oracle setups" that will risk to lose > all Oracle support by installing a different kernel. > No, I doubt so as well. Then again, why force them into a vendor kernel? At the very least, it would be nice to be able to benchmark vanilla against the vendors. > And AFAIK Oracle currently supports not a single distribution that ships > with kernel 2.6. Keep in mind that just because oracle isn't certified on a kernel today, that doesn't make Andrew's statements wrong. -chris