Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00 | | From | Lee Revell <> | | Date | Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:33:09 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > the biggest change in this patch is the merge of Paul E. McKenney's > preemptable RCU code. The new RCU code is active on PREEMPT_RT. While it > is still quite experimental at this stage, it allowed the removal of > locking cruft (mainly in the networking code), so it could solve some of > the longstanding netfilter/networking deadlocks/crashes reported by a > number of people. Be careful nevertheless.
With PREEMPT_RT my machine deadlocked within 20 minutes of boot. "apt-get dist-upgrade" seemed to trigger the crash. I did not see any Oops unfortunately.
Lee
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