Мои выдержки
After lenghty and fruitful discussions with Peter Zijlstra - thanks a lot Peter! - we finally agreed on trying a totally different approach to tackle these issues: disabling migration over spinlock and get_cpu sections. This had been discussed before, but nobody ever considered to sit down and make it work.
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The overall patch size has shrunk significantly and the readability (except for the missing changelogs in various patches) is at an acceptable level.
Похоже, они нехило повеселились с патчами, что вселяет надежду на то, что всё скоро будет интегрировано в ванильное ядро.