Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

Esben Nielsen
2005-03-31T12:03:19Z

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> > Well, here it finally is. There's still things I don't like about it.
> > But it seems to work, and that's the important part.
> >
> > I had to reluctantly add two items to the task_struct. I was hoping
> > to avoid that. But because of race conditions it seemed to be the only
> > way.
>
> well it's not a big problem, and we avoided having to add flags to the
> rt_lock structure, which is the important issue.
>
I was going to say the opposit. I know that there are many more rt_locks
locks around and the fields thus will take more memory when put there but
I believe it is more logical to have the fields there.

Esben