Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262145AbVEXQbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262143AbVEXQbk (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:40 -0400 Received: from mail.timesys.com ([65.117.135.102]:47689 "EHLO exchange.timesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262145AbVEXQ3W (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 12:29:22 -0400 Message-ID: <429355FD.9030803@timesys.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:27:41 -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: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john cooper Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance References: <1116890066.13086.61.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <20050524054722.GA6160@infradead.org> <20050524064522.GA9385@elte.hu> <4292DFC3.3060108@yahoo.com.au> <20050524081517.GA22205@elte.hu> <1116949498.28841.19.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <1116949498.28841.19.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 May 2005 16:22:58.0703 (UTC) FILETIME=[D940A1F0:01C5607C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 20 Daniel Walker wrote: > The main reason for my email is that I know Andrew and Linus don't want > interrupts in threads. Without that there is no PREEMPT_RT . If you want > to narrow the discussion to just interrupts in threads that's fine with > me, cause that's what I'm concerned about. Again, what are the technical arguments against scheduled interrupts causing these folks concern? All in all it is just a different locking paradigm where interrupt-initiated scheduling is moved closer to the metal. -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/