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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:11:24 -0600
From: "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Esben Nielsen <simlo@phys.au.dk>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rt17
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i have released the 2.6.15-rt17 tree, which can be downloaded from the 
> usual place:
> 
>    http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> lots of changes all across the map. There are several bigger changes:
> 
> the biggest change is the new PI code from Esben Nielsen, Thomas 
> Gleixner and Steven Rostedt. This big rework simplifies and streamlines 
> the PI code, and fixes a couple of bugs and races:
> 
>   - only the top priority waiter on a lock is enqueued into the pi_list
>     of the task which holds the lock. No more pi list walking in the
>     boost case.
> 
>   - simpler locking rules
> 
>   - fast Atomic acquire for the non contended case and atomic release 
>     for non waiter case is fully functional now
> 
>   - use task_t references instead of thread_info pointers
> 
>   - BKL handling for semaphore style locks changed so that BKL is
>     dropped before the scheduler is entered and reaquired in the return
>     path. This solves a possible deadlock situation in the BKL reacquire
>     path of the scheduler.
> 
> another change is the reworking of the SLAB code: it now closely matches 
> the upstream SLAB code, and it should now work on NUMA systems too 
> (untested though).
> 
> the tasklet code was reworked too to be PREEMPT_RT friendly: the new PI 
> code unearthed a fundamental livelock scenario with PREEMPT_RT, and the 
> fix was to rework the tasklet code to get rid of the 'retrigger 
> softirqs' approach.
> 
> other changes: various hrtimers fixes, latency tracer enhancements - and 
> more. (Robust-futexes are not expected to work in this release.)
> 
> please report any new breakages, and re-report any old breakages as 
> well.
> 
> to build a 2.6.15-rt17 tree, the following patches should be applied:
> 
>   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.15-rt17
> 
> 	Ingo

Ingo I think you fat fingered the name of the patchfile on your site. :)

-- 
   kr
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