Re: State of Linux-RT Patches and full inclusion into linus tree

Re: State of Linux-RT Patches and full inclusion into linus tree

[Bryan Donlan]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 20:43, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if (or ever) will the full Linux RT patches be merged into
> Linus's tree? If not, what is preventing this? I know bits of this has been
> leaking into 2.6.x over the years.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn.

(adding CC for linux-rt-users)

Re: State of Linux-RT Patches and full inclusion into linus tree

[jordan]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 20:43, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if (or ever) will the full Linux RT patches be merged into
>> Linus's tree? If not, what is preventing this? I know bits of this has been
>> leaking into 2.6.x over the years.

One of the key parts of the RT patchset, is already mainline - and was
merged in 2.6.39. - Forced Interrupt Threading. it can be enabled in
the kernel config. From what i understand there are other bits and
pieces to the RT patchset. But this was the most significant.. it is
certainly mainline and has been available for quite a while now. I am
typing from a computer that has it enabled, as i write to you now.

myself, i used RT for proaudio ~ i do not require RT anymore, at all.
my applications always meet their 'deadlines' with very low-latency
and work the way they are supposed too.

someone else can clarify on the bits of RT are still to be merged, as
i don't know. i just remember someone talking about that a few months
ago on the list. maybe that has changed. I had also read there was
supposed to be another RT release, but your posting is the first on
this list in a long time.

jordan

Re: State of Linux-RT Patches and full inclusion into linus tree

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:46:31 -0400
Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 20:43, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if (or ever) will the full Linux RT patches be merged into
> > Linus's tree? If not, what is preventing this? I know bits of this has been
> > leaking into 2.6.x over the years.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shawn.  
> 
> (adding CC for linux-rt-users)

Thomas gave a talk on this subject back in April:

	http://lwn.net/Articles/440064/

jon

Re: State of Linux-RT Patches and full inclusion into linus tree

[Bob Ham]

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On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 06:54 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:46:31 -0400
> Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 20:43, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com> wrote:

> > > I was wondering if (or ever) will the full Linux RT patches be merged into
> > > Linus's tree?

> Thomas gave a talk on this subject back in April:
> 
> 	http://lwn.net/Articles/440064/

That article contains the following sentence:

  "There are plans to update to 2.6.38 soon."

Just out of curiosity, is that update under way?

-- 
Bob Ham <rah@bash.sh>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }

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