Subject: Re: One-shot high-resolution POSIX timer periodically late
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: John <shill@free.fr>
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:31:21 +0100
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On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:37 +0100, John wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > John wrote:
> > 
> >> John Stultz wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Also do check the -rt tree as Ingo suggested. I mis-read your earlier
> >>> email and thought you were running it.
> >> 
> >> I've been pulling my hair over a related issue for the past two days.
> >> 
> >> (I think I may be tickling a -hrt bug...)
> >> 
> >> I'm working with 2.6.18.6 + patch-2.6.18-rt7
> > 
> > 2.6.18-rt7 is pretty old, do you see the problem in 2.6.20-rc6-rt5 too?
> 
> Ingo, Thomas,
> 
> As far as I can tell, the -rt patch set is only updated for the latest 
> kernel version available. Is that correct?
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/?M=D
> 
> In other words, once 2.6.20 is released, and work starts on 2.6.21, if a 
> bug is discovered in -rt, the fix will not be back-ported to the 
> 2.6.20.x (and 2.6.19.x, and 2.6.18.x, etc) patch set?

Correct, there is only 1 live branch.

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