What I thought was more interesting (Linus noted "Nothing really exciting happened since -rc7...") was the exchange between Linus and Peter Zijlstra, in particular this Linus eruption:<p><a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/19/97" rel="nofollow">https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/19/97</a>
The X32 ABI is interesting. Who'd have thought this many years after 64 bit becoming mainstream, (and decades after it becoming mainstream on servers) something like this would be needed.
"...making slow start suboptimal" caught my eye, but I didn't understand the rest. Is this for a specific circumstance or general? Did they find something better than slow start or did they break it, causing it to be suboptimal?