From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261676AbULNVxp (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:53:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261672AbULNVxo (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:53:44 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:57583 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261676AbULNVxO (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:53:14 -0500 Message-ID: <41BF60A1.1080606@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:52:33 -0800 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: george@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Steven Rostedt , Lee Revell , LKML , Rui Nuno Capela , Mark Johnson , "K.R. Foley" , Bill Huey , Adam Heath , Florian Schmidt , Thomas Gleixner , Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-0 References: <20041122005411.GA19363@elte.hu> <20041123175823.GA8803@elte.hu> <20041124101626.GA31788@elte.hu> <20041203205807.GA25578@elte.hu> <20041207132927.GA4846@elte.hu> <20041207141123.GA12025@elte.hu> <20041214132834.GA32390@elte.hu> <1103052853.3582.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1103054908.14699.20.camel@krustophenia.net> <1103057144.3582.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041214211828.GA17216@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20041214211828.GA17216@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt wrote: > > >>>>[RFC] >>>> >>>>Ingo, >>>> >>>>Any thought about adding a one shot timer for the system? >>>> >>> >>>Isn't this what George Anzinger is working on? >>> >>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ >>> >>>Lee >>> >> >>A quick look at this looks like this is what I was looking for. I'd >>need to review the code in a more detailed aspect but first glance, >>Yes, this is what I want. >> >>Now, since High Res-timers and RT seem to go together, what are the >>plans for merging these? If this is indeed what I need, then I'll be >>doing it to myself, [...] > > > i've been thinking about it on and off. If you would/could try it that > would certainly help. RT for Linux is a dance of many small steps. > > the two projects are obviously complementary and i have no intention to > reinvent the wheel in any way. Best would be to bring hires timers up to > upstream-mergable state (independently of the -RT patch) and ask Andrew > to include it in -mm, then i'd port -RT to it automatically. Well, I guess I am just backward :) I plan to port it to the current RT today or tomorrow (if all goes well). I will then work on the changes needed to get it into -mm. Guess I will be supporting two versions for a bit... -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/