glibc 2.23 --- Starting soft/slush freeze

[Torvald Riegel]

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:25 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 18:52 -0200, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > At stated in a previous message we are now in soft/slushy freeze mode. 
> > Please do not commit new features other than the ones already reviewed.
> > If your new feature still needs review and was not listed in the releases 
> > wiki as a blocker feature [2] it is unfortunately too late. Please defer 
> > to glibc 2.23 when it opens.
> 
> The barrier patch has been reviewed by Paul Murphy and tested by him on
> Power.  Paul said he might prefer if someone else reviewed it too,
> though.  Can this be considered reviewed then?

I forgot to mention that technically, the new barrier is a bugfix
because it fixes the lacking destruction problem (same holds for the new
condvar implementation listed as a desirable feature).  OTOH, it's a
completely new algorithm (because the original algorithm was
insufficient and could not be fixed incrementally), so the amount of
novel code is similar to what a new feature would bring.