Re: [PATCH -rt] Preemption problem in kernel RT Patch

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 03:14:05 EST



* Beauchemin, Mark <Mark.Beauchemin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> sorry.. I sent the wrong patch file. There was a warning in the
> other one.

> - int xmit_lock_owner;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
> + void * xmit_lock_owner;
> +#else
> + int xmit_lock_owner;
> +#endif

could you please change this to use 'current' (instead of the CPU
number) as the xmit_lock_owner unconditionally? That results in much
fewer #ifdefs and far cleaner code.

Ingo
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/