Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261212AbVE2Bxl (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 21:53:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261215AbVE2Bxk (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 21:53:40 -0400 Received: from 65-102-103-67.albq.qwest.net ([65.102.103.67]:22688 "EHLO montezuma.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261212AbVE2Bxi (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 21:53:38 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 19:55:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Bill Huey cc: Nick Piggin , Andi Kleen , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Ingo Molnar , dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance In-Reply-To: <20050528054503.GA2958@nietzsche.lynx.com> Message-ID: References: <1117044019.5840.32.camel@sdietrich-xp.vilm.net> <20050526193230.GY86087@muc.de> <1117138270.1583.44.camel@sdietrich-xp.vilm.net> <20050526202747.GB86087@muc.de> <4296ADE9.50805@yahoo.com.au> <20050527120812.GA375@nietzsche.lynx.com> <429715DE.6030008@yahoo.com.au> <20050527233645.GA2283@nietzsche.lynx.com> <4297EB57.5090902@yahoo.com.au> <20050528054503.GA2958@nietzsche.lynx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 31 On Fri, 27 May 2005, Bill Huey wrote: > > It isn't clear to me yet. I'm sure you can make your interrupt > > latencies look good, as with your scheduling latencies. But when > > My project was getting a solid spike at 4 usec for irq-thread > startups and Ingo's stuff is better. It's already there. Is that worst case? > > I wouldn't consider a non response (or a late response) to mean that > > a point has been conceeded, or that I've won any kind of argument :-) > > Well, you're wrong. :) > > Well, uh, ummm, start writing RT media apps and you will know what > I'm talking about. Dual kernel stuff isn't going to fly with those > folks especially with an RT patch as good as this already in the > general kernel. More experience with this kind of programming makes > it clear where the failures are with a dual kernel approach. Media apps are actually not that commonplace as far as hard realtime applications are concerned. Zwane - 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/