Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel

[Ingo Molnar]

* Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 01:46, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >  - the generic irq subsystem: irq threading is a simple ~200-lines,
> >    architecture-independent add-on to this. It makes no sense to offer 3
> >    different implementations - pick one and help make it work well.
> > 
> >  - preemptible BKL. Related to this is new debugging infrastructure in
> >    -mm that allows the safe and slow conversion of spinlocks to mutexes. 
> >    In the case of the BKL this conversion is expected to be permanent, 
> >    for most of the other spinlocks it will be optional - but the 
> >    debugging code can still be used.
> 
> 	Are you referring to the lock metering? I've ported our changes
> to -mm3-VP-T3 on top of lock metering. It needs some clean up but It
> will be released soon. It's very similar to our rc3 release only
> without the IRQ threads patch.

no, i mean the smp_processor_id() debugger, and the other bits triggered
by CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT.

	Ingo
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