2008-06-23 21:22:18

by Steven Rostedt

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Subject: 2.6.24.7-rt14

We are pleased to announce the 2.6.24.7-rt14 tree, which can be
downloaded from the location:

http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/

Information on the RT patch can be found at:

http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

Changes since 2.6.24.7-rt13

- rwlock pi_lock fixes on waking up multiple readers (Steven Rostedt)

- revert adaptive locks from RCU (Thomas Gleixner)
[ for some reason, using RCU causes some latency spikes, this
may be a sign of something going wrong in RCU itself ]

- rwlock mutex owner fix for waking up reader with readers held (Steven Rostedt)

- rwlock remove waiter from pi_list on above fix (Steven Rostedt and
Thomas Gleixner)

- rwlock replace macro with inline (Thomas Gleixner)

- rwlock pending namespace updates (Thomas Gleixner)

- rwlock debug check (Thomas Gleixner)

- futex fix fault (Thomas Gleixner)

- x86_64 fix copy user (Linus Torvalds)

to build a 2.6.24.7-rt14 tree, the following patches should be applied:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.24.7.bz2
http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/patch-2.6.24.7-rt14.bz2


And like always, my RT version of Matt Mackall's ketchup will get this
for you nicely:

http://people.redhat.com/srostedt/rt/tools/ketchup-0.9.8-rt3


The broken out patches are also available.



-- Steve



2008-06-28 17:14:14

by Leon Woestenberg

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Subject: Re: 2.6.24.7-rt14

Hello,

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, trem <[email protected]> wrote:
> [trem@localhost rt-tests]$ sudo ./cyclictest -t 1 -p 80 -n -i 10000 -l

Just a warning to everyone, not that it affects the test or results in
case of 1 thread, but that should be -t1 instead of -t 1.

This little difference would matter if you decided to use more than 1 thread.

"-t NUM" will not pick up the NUM value, as optional arguments must
not have a space between the option and (optional) argument.

Regards,
--
Leon