Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm2-V0.7.30-2

i have released the -V0.7.30-2 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be
downloaded from the usual place:

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

the biggest change in this release are fixes for priority-inheritance
bugs uncovered by Esben Nielsen pi_test suite. These bugs could explain
some of the jackd-under-load latencies reported.

Changes since -V0.7.29-0:

 - priority inheritance handling fixes:

    - sort the RT wakees at wakeup time, not at block-time: an RT task
      might have gotten boosted while it slept.

    - fix priority-restoration bug at mutex-release time

    - use task_rt() not p->policy to determine whether a task needs 
      PI handling - a SCHED_OTHER task might be boosted to RT prio.

    - fix mutex_setprio() bug: queue now-RT tasks to the active array, 
      otherwise expired SCHED_OTHER tasks will not be properly boosted.

 - went back to the mask-and-delay method of handling hardirqs on 
   UP-IOAPIC as well. Due to APIC prioritization hardirqs can get
   delayed by another, unacked hardirq, so the quick method needs more 
   work before it can be used.

 - added Thomas Gleixner's semaphore -> completion changes for 
   drv->unload_sem. This fixes the module unload crashes reported by 
   Rui Nuno Capela and Shane Shrybman.

 - dvb mutex updates for RT, this fixes the bug reported by Christian 
   Meder.

 - e100 fix from K.R. Foley - this should fix the boot-time e100
   enable_irq warning.

 - NFS lockd mutex RT fixes from Thomas Gleixner - this could fix some
   of the bugs reported by Bill Huey.

 - PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY fixes - this could fix the boot-time hang reported 
   by Lee Revell.

 - wake up irq thread upon creation - this solves the 'irq thread only 
   changes priority after first interrupt arrives' anomaly reported.

to create a -V0.7.30-2 tree from scratch, the patching order is:

  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2
  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6...

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2....

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

	Ingo
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