Re: [Ext-rt-dev] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 23:12, Bill Huey wrote:
> My tree is stable. I was able to hammer this machine for 2-3 days straight
> (no networking, that's another major can of worms) with deadlocking
> using multipule mass "find / -exec egrep" of some sort that stress both
> process creation and all parts of the IO system.

He, a system without networking is a real measurement ? Ever heard of
hackbench in combination with ping -f ?

> That graph that I saw from Lee is consistent with my results in that a
> deadlock prone system will have phenomenal latency performance at the
> expense of being absolutely incorrect. It's just a flat out broken
> system at this point that they've released.

Thats a major problem caused by "dumb" priority inheritence. The goal is
not priority inheritence at the very end. It's proxy execution, where
priority inheritence is a subset.

> > This could be done in a first step and then it is clearly identifiable
> > and it gives us more flexibility to wrap different implementations and
> > lets us change particular points in a more clear way.
> 
> Yes, I agree, but the convention needs to be standardized.

That's all I was talking about.

> > I would be willing to provide some scripted conversion aid, if there is
> > enough interest to that. I started with some test files and the results
> > are quite encouraging.
> 
> No, all of this can only be manual at this time, either through static
> analysis by a compiler, like what Ingo did over the weekend or by hand
> with runtime sleep violation checks.

I'm not talking about automatic conversion of rules. I'm talking about
automatic conversion of different concurrency controls into a
equivillance function, which lets you better identify the neccecary
manual changes and leaves room for simple and non intrusive replacement
implementations.

> Give me a bit of time to upload those files. I was just given permission
> to talk about this openly now. But I can definitely tell you that I had
> this running months before Monta Vista's announcement over the weekend.

There are a bunch of other efforts underway around the world, which
might be concentrated now into one.

tglx