From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261799AbVFJDAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:00:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262417AbVFJDAO (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:00:14 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:2000 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261799AbVFJDAI (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:00:08 -0400 Subject: Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread From: Lee Revell To: paulmck@us.ibm.com Cc: Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bhuey@lnxw.com, andrea@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de, karim@opersys.com, mingo@elte.hu, pmarques@grupopie.com, bruce@andrew.cmu.edu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, ak@muc.de, sdietrich@mvista.com, dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20050609235026.GE1297@us.ibm.com> References: <20050608022646.GA3158@us.ibm.com> <42A8D1F3.8070408@am.sony.com> <20050609235026.GE1297@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:59:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1118372388.32270.6.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:50 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:34:11PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > Midway through the recent "RT patch acceptance" thread, someone mentioned > > > that it might be good to summarize the various approaches. The following > > > is an attempt to do just this, with an eye to providing a reasonable > > > framework for future discussion. > > > > > > Thoughts? Errors? Omissions? > > > > I haven't finished it, but it looks great so far. Are you planning to > > repost it to LKML, or otherwise publish it somewhere, after incorporating > > feedback? > > Glad you like it! > > I figured on sending out an update sometime next week, after incorporating > feedback. I believe you are too friendly to vanilla + CONFIG_PREEMPT. People are still seeing tens or hundreds of ms bumps. Does the LTP include an RT latency test yet? Lee