Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-mm1-U10.2 | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:49:35 -0400 |
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On Friday 22 October 2004 13:56, Ingo Molnar wrote: >i have released the -U10.2 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be >downloaded from: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > >this is a fixes-only release. > >Changes since -U10: > > - fixed a big bug present ever since: the BKL got dropped when a > spinlock-mutex was acquired and it scheduled away. This reduced > the locking efficiency of the BKL. A number of outstanding problems > could be affected, in particular this should fix the tty locking > breakage reported by Alexander Batyrshin and Adam Heath. UP and SMP > systems are affected too, with SMP systems having a higher chance > to trigger this condition. > > - tulip.c breakage fix from Thomas Gleixner > > - tg3 and 3c59x fixes. > > - made the hardirq threads SCHED_FIFO by default. They get > priorities between 25 and 50, depending on the irq #. (this is > pretty random but i found no better scheme.) Made the softirq > thread SCHED_FIFO by default as well, albeit this probably will > have to change. These changes should make it easier to debug a hung > system. > >to create a -U10.2 tree from scratch, the patching order is: > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 > + > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2. >6.9-mm1/2.6.9-mm1.bz2 + > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/realtime-preempt-2.6.9-mm >1-U10.2
Mmm, I get a 404 page not found. when I click on on thsi link.
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