From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935439AbXGLQmo (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:42:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762408AbXGLQmf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:42:35 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:46302 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752250AbXGLQme (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:42:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [announce] split-up -rt patch-queue, v2.6.22.1-rt2 From: Daniel Walker To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20070712153717.GA7442@elte.hu> References: <20070712153717.GA7442@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:33:18 -0700 Message-Id: <1184257998.7974.44.camel@dhcp193.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 (2.10.2-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 17:37 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > We are pleased to announce something we've been working on for some > time: a finegrained, split-up patch queue of the -rt kernel patch. From > now on (as of 2.6.22.1-rt2) it will be part of every upstream -rt > release and it is available from the -rt download site: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > the -rt patch-queue consists of 374 patches at the moment, which do: > > 698 files changed, 27920 insertions(+), 9603 deletions(-) Is the number of patches relevant to you ? It seems like some patches could be boken out more. For instance there could be a per-architecture patch dedicated to converting spinlocks to raw spinlocks .. I was looking at preempt-realtime-i386.patch .. Daniel