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Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-0
From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 05:28, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i have released the -V0.7.33-0 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be
> downloaded from the usual place:
> 
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> this is mainly a port from -rc2-mm3 to -rc3-mm1. Changes:
> 
> - due to 2.6.10 release work the -mm kernel now is in fixes-mostly mode,
>   but there's one interesting new feature: -rc3-mm1 introduced the
>   ->unlocked_ioctl method which is now an official way to do BKL-less
>   ioctls. I changed the ALSA ->ioctl_bkl changes in -RT to use this
>   facility. The ALSA/sound guys might be interested in these bits. Thus
>   another chunk of -RT could go upstream.
> 
> - IO-APIC/MSI fix from Steven Rostedt.
> 
> - fixed a tracer bug which would produce a kernel warning and an empty
>   /proc/latency_trace if the trace buffer overflows.

I don't know which change did it, but I have network connectivity in my
athlon64 test box with 0.7.33-0! Woohoo! [*]
Thanks...
-- Fernando

[*] as reported before: going up to runlevel 5 killed the network, up to
leve 3 everything was fine, I was guessing probably due to some problem
with X and the radeon driver.