Re: 2.6.17-rc6-rt3

["Sébastien Dugué" <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i have released the 2.6.17-rc6-rt3 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> the usual place:
> 
>    http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> this is a fixes-only release: lots of fixes from Thomas Gleixner (for 
> the softirq problem that caused those ping latency weirdnesses, for 
> hrtimers and timers problems and for the RCU related bug that was 
> causing instability and more), John Stultz, Jan Altenberg and Clark 
> Williams. MIPS update from Manish Lachwani. Futex fix from Dinakar 
> Guniguntala. It also includes the RT-scheduling SMP fix that could fix 
> the scheduling problem reported by Darren Hart.
> 
> I think all of the regressions reported against rt1 are fixed, please 
> re-report if any of them is still unfixed.
> 

  Great, boots fine on my dual Xeon and solves the ping problem I was
having.

  Thomas, any hint at what was going on?

  Thanks,

  Sébastien.