Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760634AbZJMRMG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:12:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760599AbZJMRMF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:12:05 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:38139 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760598AbZJMRME (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:12:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:11:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Remy Bohmer cc: LKML , rt-users Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.31.2-rt13 In-Reply-To: <3efb10970910130846h2f9d4dbdk755f211fe8d43d4d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <3efb10970910061123k2b6826bci11f0f42509173b26@mail.gmail.com> <3efb10970910130846h2f9d4dbdk755f211fe8d43d4d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1140 Lines: 34 On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > 2009/10/6 Thomas Gleixner : > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote: > >> > But I was wondering if you missed this one: > >> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50044/ > >> > >> Yup, slipped through. Queued for the next release. > > > > Correction. I dropped the patch as it is just a sloppy work around. > > Why creating the thread in the first place ? Real fix below. > > Well, I noticed a few minutes ago that the sirq-hrtimer is > periodically being scheduled (every 50msec here) > It does not do much, but it still it does something... (no idea what though) Yeah, noticed as well. It's due to the deferred handling of signal based timers. > So, is it really right to prevent it from starting up? Nope. We just name it unconditionally :) Thanks, 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/