Re: RT patch acceptance

Ingo Molnar
2005-05-25T06:13:06Z

* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> (That being said, it's already a mighty task to decrypt your way
> through the maze-like implementation of spin_lock(), lock_kernel(),
> smp_processor_id() etc, etc. I really do wish there was some way we
> could clean up/simplify that stuff before getting in and adding more
> source-level complexity).

yes, that's next on my list, and it's completely independent of
PREEMPT_RT, as 'the maze of spinlock APIs' already exists in the current
kernel. (PREEMPT_RT only makes the problem worse) But dont expect big
wonders.

Ingo