LKML News v5.7-rc6

[PATCH v4 00/36] Large pages in the page cache (Matthew Wilcox)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515131656.12890-1-willy@infradead.org

This is the fourth version of the patchset for the huge pages in the page cache. Still it fails xfstests.

Maintainers / Kernel Summit 2020 planning kick-off (Theodore Y. Ts’o)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515163956.GA2158595@mit.edu

Ted annouced that the Maintainers / Kernel Summit will be held in virtual this year, of course due to the COVID19. With this announcement, the CFP for the kernel summit is also opened.

Linux 5.7-rc6 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjP9eOr2GEpgtcpN4Hqve6YRiyEF5Pq6ZsKFKHZ_v5Bwg@mail.gmail.com

It’s rc6, which is supposed to be calming down. But, rc6 was bigger than usual. As rc5 was also bigger than usual, this probably not a good sign for 5.7 release. But, no detailed change seems obviously wrong.

Torvalds just hope hings calm down.