Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.4.41-rt55-feat1

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 25 2013 - 09:09:12 EST


On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 14:46 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 14:36 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > hrtimer: fix hrtimer free zone build bug
> > >
> > > Perhaps the better solution is to select HIGH_RES_TIMERS when
> > > PREEMPT_RT_FULL is selected?
> >
> > No, why ?
>
> Why not? ;-)
>
> Except for the lack of support, one would think that if you want real
> time responses, you would also want a real time clock.

Well, if your application is driven by an external interrupt, then you
do not need highres timers at all.

Thanks,

tglx

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