Re: 2.6.25.4-rt2

[Kasper Sandberg]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 19:44 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 18:43 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > We are pleased to announce the 2.6.25.4-rt2 tree, which can be
> 
> > Forgive me if i ask an obvious stupid question. But what is the status
> > of this -rt tree for .25 in relation with the BKL stuff?
> 
> Well, the BKL is still a semaphore in 25.

I just asked because i have read a bit of the discussion, and have
personally noticed that there is no option to "preempt the bkl" in
my .25 configuration

<snip>
> 
> 
> Here it is no better, and the BKL has been converted into a spin lock.
oh nice, i thought this was being postponsed to .27
> 
> But I'm very much busy working on -rt right now to dig deeper into this
> regression.

No worries. I shall give this tree a try.

> 
> -- Steve
> 
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