Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965041AbWJWS6L (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:58:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965044AbWJWS6L (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:58:11 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:64485 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965041AbWJWS6K (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:58:10 -0400 Subject: Re: -rt7 announcement? (was Re: 2.6.18-rt6) From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Mark Knecht Cc: Lee Revell , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Stultz , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dipankar Sarma , Arjan van de Ven , Mike Galbraith , Daniel Walker , Manish Lachwani , bastien.dugue@bull.net In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0610231144s420c1523p43af2a8349bac04@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061018083921.GA10993@elte.hu> <1161356444.15860.327.camel@mindpipe> <1161621286.2835.3.camel@mindpipe> <1161628539.22373.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <5bdc1c8b0610231144s420c1523p43af2a8349bac04@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:59:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1161629955.22373.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 31 On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 11:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Thomas, > Some differences/questions between 2.6.18-rt6 and 2.6.18-rt7: > > In 2.6.18-rt6, using make menuconfig, there were options on the > front page for HRT Support. This seems to have moved under Processor > Type with 2.6.18-rt7. Was that on purpose? Yes > In 2.6.18-rt6 I turned on HRT support, left 1000 nanoseconds for > the timing, but did not enable dynamic ticks since I wasn't sure it > was OK on AMD64. Should I be using DynTicks with an AMD64 single > processor? With a dual-processor? Should work > On 2.6.18-rt7 it seems there is no time value setting or it's been > moved somewhere I haven't found. does that 1000 nanosecond time > setting still apply? Basically yes. It is handled internally. tglx - 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/