Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:49:45 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rt10 |
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* Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > i've released -rt10 > > Is anyone working on a port of this patch to the IA64 architecture ?
not that i know of. If someone wants to do that, take a look at the x86_64 changes (or ppc/mips/i386 changes) to get an idea. These are the rough steps needed:
- do the raw_spinlock_t/rwlock_t -> __raw_spinlock_t/rwlock_t rename
- change the APIs in asm-ia64/semaphore.h (and arch files) to compat_up()/down()/etc.
- in the arch Kconfig, turn off RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM if PREEMPT_RT.
- add the TID_NEED_RESCHED_DELAYED logic to thread_info.h and the entry assembly code.
- change most/all spinlocks in arch/ia64 to raw_spinlock / RAW_SPINLOCK
- change most/all seqlocks to raw_seqlock / RAW_SEQLOCK
- add smp_send_reschedule_allbutself().
- take a good look at the arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c changes and port the need_resched_delayed() and __schedule() changes.
that should be at least 95% of what's needed. (the x86_64 port does a couple of other things too, like latency tracing support, etc., but you dont need those for the initial ia64 port.)
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