Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:30:38 -0800 | From | Mark Knecht <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14-rt1 |
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On 10/30/05, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > i have released the 2.6.14-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the > usual place: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > this release is mainly about ktimer fixes: it updates to the latest > ktimer tree from Thomas Gleixner (which includes John Stultz's latest > GTOD tree), it fixes TSC synchronization problems on HT systems, and > updates the ktimers debugging code. > > These together could fix most of the timer warnings and annoyances > reported for 2.6.14-rc5-rt kernels. In particular the new > TSC-synchronization code could fix SMP systems: the upstream TSC > synchronization method is fine for 1 usec resolution, but it was not > good enough for 1 nsec resolution and likely caused the SMP bugs > reported by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano and Rui Nuno Capela. > > Please re-report any bugs that remain. > > Changes since 2.6.14-rc5-rt1: > > - GTOD -B9 (John Stultz) > > - ktimer updates (Thomas Gleixner, me)
I am no longer seeing any ktimer messages in dmesg after booting. So far so good.
> > - ktimer debugging check fixes (Steven Rostedt) > > - smarter TSC synchronization on SMP - we now rely on it for nsecs (me) > > - x64 build fix (reported by Mark Knecht)
Thanks Ingo. This seems fixed. 2.6.14-rt1 up and running here.
> > - tracing fix (reported by Florian Schmidt) > > - rtc histogram fixes (K.R. Foley) > > - merge to 2.6.14 > > to build a 2.6.14-rt1 tree, the following patches should be applied: > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.14-rt1 > > Ingo >
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