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* 2.6.18-rt1
@ 2006-09-20 14:19 Ingo Molnar
  2006-09-20 16:50 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
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  0 siblings, 10 replies; 101+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2006-09-20 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Thomas Gleixner, John Stultz, Paul E. McKenney, Dipankar Sarma,
	Arjan van de Ven

I'm pleased to announce the 2.6.18-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded 
from the usual place:

   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/

This port to the 2.6.18 codebase was very complex (given that 5 major 
features moved from -rt into 2.6.18: rtmutex, pi-futex, genirq, gtod and 
lockdep), so it took quite some time to finish, but in exchange it 
includes nice new features and also lots of bugfixes.

In particular, a nasty softirq performance bug has been fixed, which 
caused the "5x slowdown under TCP" bug reported to lkml - those TCP 
performance figures are now on par with vanilla performance.

The biggest new features are:

 - Dynticks (a tickless kernel). This is a new feature we implemented 
   ontop of hrtimers for the -hrt patchqueue and now we merged it to -rt 
   too. There's a new config option: CONFIG_NO_HZ, which if enabled, 
   produces a system with fewer timer interrupts. Currently i686 and 
   x86_64 are tested, but in general a hrtimers-ready platform needs 
   minimal changes to support dynticks too. (from Thomas Gleixner and 
   me, the x86_64 port is from Arjan van de Ven)

 - Timer expiry statistics feature from Thomas Gleixner: 
   CONFIG_TIMER_STATS. Enable/disable via "echo 1[0] > /proc/tstats", 
   display via "cat /proc/stats".

   This kernel feature tracks the starting site (and expiry function) of 
   expired timers (both timer_list timers and hrtimers), and the number 
   of times they expired. This is a nice tool for those who'd like to 
   minimize the amount of timer ticks on their battery-based systems. 
   Sample output:

 Timerstats sample period: 3.888770 s
   12,     0 swapper          hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick)
   15,     1 swapper          hcd_submit_urb (rh_timer_func)
    4,   959 kedac            schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
    1,     0 swapper          page_writeback_init (wb_timer_fn)
   28,     0 swapper          hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick)
   22,  2948 IRQ 4            tty_flip_buffer_push (delayed_work_timer_fn)
    3,  3100 bash             schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
    1,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
    1,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
    1,     1 swapper          neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer)
    1,  2292 ip               __netdev_watchdog_up (dev_watchdog)
    1,    23 events/1         do_cache_clean (delayed_work_timer_fn)
 90 total events, 30.0 events/sec

 - There's also a new runtime-configurable kernel option under 
   /proc/sys/kernel/timeout_granularity that allows the coarser expiry 
   of timer_list timers, and hence better batching of timer expiry. 
   (hrtimers are not affected) The value of this option gives a 
   'multiplier' to the standard HZ granularity.

 - Lock validator ported to -rt: it now checks all the sleeping lock
   variants in -rt too. This helps us catch not only deadlocks but also 
   raw-lock candidates, sooner than before.

 - The latest High Resolution Timers queue from Thomas Gleixner with 
   initial support for ARM and PPC. (Kevin Hilman, Deepak Saksena, 
   Sergei Shtylyov)

 - The latest GTOD (Generic Time Of Day) queue from John Stultz,
   including NTP cleanups from Roman Zippel.

 - The latest genirq queue: more irq-chip-ization of i686 and x86_64, 
   MSI cleanups from Eric W. Biederman et al.

 - The latest preemptible-RCU queue from Paul E McKenney and Dipankar
   Sarma.

 - (assorted fixes and improvements.)

Right now i686 and x86_64 are boot-tested, and ARM is compile-tested. 
The other architectures likely wont even build yet. This being the first 
2.6.18 based release of -rt, some tester caution is called for.

to build a 2.6.18-rt1 tree, the following patches should be applied:

  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
  http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.18-rt1

as usual, bugreports, fixes and suggestions are welcome,

	Ingo

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2006-09-20 14:19 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 16:50 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 16:58   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 17:33     ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:34     ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 17:00   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 17:38     ` 2.6.18-rt1 Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-20 17:41       ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 18:23         ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:25         ` 2.6.18-rt1 Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-20 18:34           ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 20:06             ` 2.6.18-rt1 Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-20 21:38               ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 20:17             ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:36           ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:47             ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 19:20               ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 19:46             ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 20:19               ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 20:14                 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 20:31                   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-21 19:02                     ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 19:18                       ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-22 14:42                       ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-27  8:36                         ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  8:04               ` 2.6.18-rt1 Deepak Saxena
2006-09-21  8:04                 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  8:24                   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Deepak Saxena
2006-09-22  2:19               ` 2.6.18-rt1 john cooper
2006-09-22  6:36                 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lennert Buytenhek
2006-09-22 11:56                   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 13:10                     ` 2.6.18-rt4 john cooper
2006-09-27 13:09                       ` 2.6.18-rt4 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 18:56 ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-20 19:49   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 20:33     ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-20 20:41       ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 20:50         ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-21 19:16           ` 2.6.18-rt1 john stultz
2006-09-22  2:18             ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-22 11:58             ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-28  0:42               ` 2.6.18-rt1 john stultz
2006-09-28 22:48                 ` 2.6.18-rt1 john stultz
2006-09-29  2:09                   ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-29 12:24                   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 12:40                   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 19:58   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 20:34     ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-20 19:38 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Mark Knecht
2006-09-20 20:27   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Mark Knecht
2006-09-22 14:14   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-09-20 20:54 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Michal Piotrowski
2006-09-20 22:07 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Michal Piotrowski
2006-09-20 22:26 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Michal Piotrowski
2006-09-21  6:56 ` [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1] Bill Huey
2006-09-21  6:54   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  7:18     ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21  7:16       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  7:32         ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21  7:29           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  7:48             ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21  7:56               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  8:13                 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21 12:23                   ` Esben Nielsen
2006-09-21 12:56                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  7:27       ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21  7:22         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  7:35           ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21  7:31             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21  7:52               ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27  2:55   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27  5:08     ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27  6:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27  6:34         ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27  7:29           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27  9:01             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 13:59               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27 14:06                 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 16:18                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-27  9:08             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27  9:09             ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27  9:05               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 20:28         ` Esben Nielsen
2006-09-27  8:57       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27  9:14         ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27  9:15           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-25  9:53 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Florian Schmidt
2006-09-26  7:57   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Florian Schmidt
2006-09-25 16:12 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Mike Kravetz
2006-09-27  8:34   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-30 18:06 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-09-30 18:18   ` 2.6.18-rt1 Dipankar Sarma
2006-09-30 18:25     ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-13 21:18     ` 2.6.18-rt1 Karsten Wiese
2006-10-13 21:20       ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-13 21:24       ` 2.6.18-rt1 Dipankar Sarma
2006-10-13 22:12         ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-13 22:16           ` 2.6.18-rt1 Dipankar Sarma
2006-10-17 14:46             ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-18  8:34               ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-10-18  7:12         ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar

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