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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 89a47b5aff0..591e94448e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: USER_SCHED +When: 2.6.34 + +Why: USER_SCHED was implemented as a proof of concept for group scheduling. + The effect of USER_SCHED can already be achieved from userspace with + the help of libcgroup. The removal of USER_SCHED will also simplify + the scheduler code with the removal of one major ifdef. There are also + issues USER_SCHED has with USER_NS. A decision was taken not to fix + those and instead remove USER_SCHED. Also new group scheduling + features will not be implemented for USER_SCHED. + +Who: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> + +--------------------------- + What: PRISM54 When: 2.6.34 @@ -302,18 +317,6 @@ Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com --------------------------- -What: SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD, - SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD -When: June 2009 -Why: A newer version of the options have been introduced in 2005 that - removes the limitions of the old API. The sctp library has been - converted to use these new options at the same time. Any user - space app that directly uses the old options should convert to using - the new options. -Who: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> - ---------------------------- - What: Ability for non root users to shm_get hugetlb pages based on mlock resource limits When: 2.6.31 @@ -404,20 +407,19 @@ Who: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> --------------------------- -What: i2c-voodoo3 driver -When: October 2009 -Why: Superseded by tdfxfb. I2C/DDC support used to live in a separate - driver but this caused driver conflicts. -Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> - Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> - ---------------------------- - What: CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT When: 2.6.33 Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon. Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> +--------------------------- + +What: CONFIG_INOTIFY +When: 2.6.33 +Why: last user (audit) will be converted to the newer more generic + and more easily maintained fsnotify subsystem +Who: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> + ---------------------------- What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be @@ -451,3 +453,33 @@ Why: OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of sound_core. The dependency will be broken then too. Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be + dropped. +When: 2.6.37 or earlier. +Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies + from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these + techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. + These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the + performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware + expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of + years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this + feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the + Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if + technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) + arise. + + Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels + still work fine on VMware's platform. + Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, + Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence + releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. + + For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, + http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html + +Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> + +---------------------------- |