Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268453AbUJJTmH (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:42:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268457AbUJJTmH (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:42:07 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:17659 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268453AbUJJTmE (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:42:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel From: Daniel Walker Reply-To: dwalker@mvista.com To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Batyrshin , "Amakarov@Ru. Mvista. " Com , "Eugeny S. Mints" , "Ext-Rt-Dev@Mvista. Com" , New Zhang Haitao , "Yyang@Ch. Mvista. Com" In-Reply-To: <20041010084633.GA13391@elte.hu> References: <41677E4D.1030403@mvista.com> <20041010084633.GA13391@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MontaVista Message-Id: <1097437314.17309.136.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 10 Oct 2004 12:41:56 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1087 Lines: 23 On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 01:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: > - the generic irq subsystem: irq threading is a simple ~200-lines, > architecture-independent add-on to this. It makes no sense to offer 3 > different implementations - pick one and help make it work well. > > - preemptible BKL. Related to this is new debugging infrastructure in > -mm that allows the safe and slow conversion of spinlocks to mutexes. > In the case of the BKL this conversion is expected to be permanent, > for most of the other spinlocks it will be optional - but the > debugging code can still be used. Are you referring to the lock metering? I've ported our changes to -mm3-VP-T3 on top of lock metering. It needs some clean up but It will be released soon. It's very similar to our rc3 release only without the IRQ threads patch. Daniel Walker - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/