Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt8

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>]

On 08/05/2011 02:44 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since yesterday is old, and yesterday's kernels aren't interesting,
> here's a fresh one: 3.0.1-rt8.

Hmmm, what are reasonable values for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO and 
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY? (or at least what are you using?). I think 
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST should be working now so I should reenable the option 
for my next build.

-- Fernando


> Aside from the obvious rebase to 3.0.1 changes include:
>
>   - a fix from Rostedt for his cpupri rework involving memory ordering
>   - a fix from me regarding this highmem muck, seeing as I mostly
>     wrecked things last time around :-)
>   - some lockdep annotations from upstream for things people were
>     seeing here as well
>   - a patch from Clark adding a sysfs file to recognize a PREEMP_RT
>     kernel for udev -- is there really no saner solution !?
>   - and a fresh raw_spinlock_t conversion of cpufreq_driver_lock, done
>     just minutes before releasing this, to keep life interesting.
>
> Still working on the known issues from last time..
>
> The patch is at:
>
>    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-3.0.1-rt8.patch.bz2
>
> The quilt series can be found here:
>
>    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patches-3.0.1-rt8.tar.bz2
>
> Once kernel.org mirrors catch up that is..