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    SubjectRe: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc2-V0.7.36-00

    * andyliu <liudeyan@gmail.com> wrote:

    > hi , ingo
    >
    > i am trying to understand your patch,but the patch file is so long and
    > complex. i am wondering is there some documents about your patch?
    >
    > :)

    well, it mainly offers the PREEMPT_RT feature, which is a 'no
    compromises' variant of kernel preemption: virtually everything
    (including normal spinlocked sections) is preemptable, with the goal of
    providing hard-realtime category ~10-20 usecs maximum scheduling latency
    guarantees on a typical PC (or embedded platform). Those long and
    complex changes are almost all needed to achieve this goal.

    this tree is mainly an experiment to see what it takes to achieve that
    latency goal, and to see how much of that can go upstream (without
    having to decide whether upstream wants to have the PREEMPT_RT feature
    or not). (A couple of dozen patches were already split out of this patch
    and are in the current upstream kernel - they already made a latency
    difference for the 2.6.10 kernel.)

    Ingo
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