Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261377AbVCaMDT (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:03:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261381AbVCaMDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:03:18 -0500 Received: from lirs02.phys.au.dk ([130.225.28.43]:57570 "EHLO lirs02.phys.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261377AbVCaMDP (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:03:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:03:00 +0100 (MET) From: Esben Nielsen To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt , LKML Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07 In-Reply-To: <20050331110330.GA24842@elte.hu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-DAIMI-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 976 Lines: 26 On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Well, here it finally is. There's still things I don't like about it. > > But it seems to work, and that's the important part. > > > > I had to reluctantly add two items to the task_struct. I was hoping > > to avoid that. But because of race conditions it seemed to be the only > > way. > > well it's not a big problem, and we avoided having to add flags to the > rt_lock structure, which is the important issue. > I was going to say the opposit. I know that there are many more rt_locks locks around and the fields thus will take more memory when put there but I believe it is more logical to have the fields there. Esben - 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/