Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel

[Andrew Morton]

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.

Lockmeter gets in the way of all this activity in a big way.   I'll drop it.
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