From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752915AbXCZQW0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:22:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752924AbXCZQW0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:22:26 -0400 Received: from mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.201]:56603 "EHLO mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752915AbXCZQWZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:22:25 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: debug rsdl 0.33 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:12:59 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Torsten Kaiser , William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox , "Martin J. Bligh" References: <20070319205623.299d0378.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46077AEE.8060507@shadowen.org> <4607E6A8.3040308@shadowen.org> In-Reply-To: <4607E6A8.3040308@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703270213.00371.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 27 March 2007 01:28, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Subsequent to that Con suggested testing a refactored RSDL patch. That > patch seemed to work on the machine at hand, so tests have been > submitted for all the affected machines. > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc4-mm1-rsdl-0.34-t >est.patch > > ... > > Ok, the preliminary results are in and we seem to have good boots in the > three machines I was hitting early boot oops. So I think we can say > that the new stack is a lot better than the old. > > Con, have a Tested-by: > :/ > > -apw Well thank you very much indeed. I'm pleased that the code I decided to rip out of the next update also took whatever bug was there with it. Fortunately it also is not dependant on the buggy sched: accurate user accounting patch that I gave up on so here is an incremental from the current -mm queue to this code without the "accurate user accounting patch" component for anyone who's trying to track just what I'm planning on moving forward with. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/sched-rsdl-sd-0.35-test.patch Summary: 3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 249 deletions(-) It also makes lists-add_list_splice_tail.patch unnecessary -- -ck