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@ 2011-07-28 16:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
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From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2011-07-28 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Segerlund; +Cc: linux-rt-users, LKML

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Lars Segerlund wrote:
> How much is there left to do for mainline inclusion ?
> 
> A rough guess would be nice, just to assess the amount of work and severity.

  http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-06-26/

If that doesn't answer your question, then you might try:

   # tar -xjf patches-3.0-rtx.tar.bz2
   # ls patches/*.patch
   # wc -l patches/*.patch
   # for each patch in patches; do read $patch; done

> As I understand it , a lot of subsystes are trying to go lockless, so
> things should become easier.

Not really, they just use different mechanisms. Serialization and
synchronization are not restricted to locks and some of these
mechanisms are even more evil than a plain old lock.

Thanks,

	tglx

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