Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268048AbUJLXOT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:14:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268051AbUJLXOT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:14:19 -0400 Received: from smtp.Lynuxworks.com ([207.21.185.24]:19461 "EHLO smtp.lynuxworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268048AbUJLXOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:14:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:13:33 -0700 To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Bill Huey , dwalker@mvista.com, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , amakarov@ru.mvista.com, ext-rt-dev@mvista.com, LKML Subject: Re: [Ext-rt-dev] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel Message-ID: <20041012231333.GD30966@nietzsche.lynx.com> References: <1097437314.17309.136.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <20041010142000.667ec673.akpm@osdl.org> <20041010215906.GA19497@elte.hu> <1097517191.28173.1.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <20041011204959.GB16366@elte.hu> <1097607049.9548.108.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <1097610393.19549.69.camel@thomas> <20041012211201.GA28590@nietzsche.lynx.com> <20041012212408.GA28707@nietzsche.lynx.com> <1097616738.19549.160.camel@thomas> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1097616738.19549.160.camel@thomas> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Bill Huey (hui) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 19 On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:32:18PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > You missed the point. TYPE decides whether to toggle interrupts or not. > It's a generic function equivivalent, which identifies sections of code, > which must be protected. The grade of protection is defined in TYPE. Sorry, I misunderstood out of my impulsiveness. If I understand you, you just want a gradual method of determining which critical sections need to be preemptive or not depending if you need a server or RT performance ? I thought you were talking about something else if this is the case. bill - 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/