Re: RT patch acceptance

Andrea Arcangeli
2005-06-01T21:13:02Z

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:56:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I have no permission from the customer who actually payed the survey to
> publish the results yet. But I continue asking for it.

Ok, thanks for asking ;)

> I have a slightly outdated patch with that around on top of RT, but it
> introduces yet another level of ugliness.
> You must carefully identify the places where you really need the
> hard_local_irq_dis/enable(). It's not hard though.
>
> I used it in the early days of PREEMPT_RT to identify the IRQ off
> sections and some other deadlocking scenarios. I kept this always as an
> option for adding on top of Ingos implementation to close the gap to
> "ruby".

I see.