Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261300AbVEXCDR (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 22:03:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261299AbVEXCDR (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 22:03:17 -0400 Received: from mail.timesys.com ([65.117.135.102]:23125 "EHLO exchange.timesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261300AbVEXCDO (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 22:03:14 -0400 Message-ID: <42928AFF.7010503@timesys.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:01:35 -0400 From: john cooper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwalker@mvista.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, sdietrich@mvista.com, john cooper Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance References: <1116890066.13086.61.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <1116890066.13086.61.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 May 2005 01:56:41.0000 (UTC) FILETIME=[D4209280:01C56003] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 22 Daniel Walker wrote: > I went to see Andrew Morton speak at Xerox PARC and he indicated that > some of the RT patch was a little crazy . Specifically interrupts in > threads (Correct me if I'm wrong Andrew). It seems a lot of the > maintainers haven't really warmed up to it. Understandably at first encounter it may seem rather unconventional. However scheduled interrupt execution has existed in Solaris for years. What are the objections? -john -- john.cooper@timesys.com - 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/