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The return of the realtime tree
Those who follow the realtime preemption patch set know that it has been
stuck on 2.6.33 for some time. With the release of a new patch based on 3.0-rc7, Thomas Gleixner
tells us why: the entire series has been reworked and cleaned up, a new
solution to the per-CPU variable problem has been implemented, and a nasty
bug held up what would otherwise have been a release based on 2.6.38.
"The beast insisted on destroying filesystems with reproduction times
measured in days and the total refusal to reveal at least a minimalistic
hint to debug the root cause. Staring into completely useless traces for
months is not a very pleasant pastime." The 3.0-rc7 version of the
patch, happily, shows no such behavior.
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The return of the realtime tree Posted Jul 21, 2011 0:22 UTC (Thu) by naptastic (subscriber, #60139) [Link]
THANK GOD!!!
(Not that I'm having much trouble getting JACK to play xrun-free using the -bfs kernel on a 6-core, 3.0ghz Phenom II machine.)
The return of the realtime tree Posted Jul 21, 2011 0:22 UTC (Thu) by naptastic (subscriber, #60139) [Link]
I'm sorry, I meant $DEITY. What was I thinking?
The return of the realtime tree Posted Jul 22, 2011 0:35 UTC (Fri) by gdiffey (subscriber, #65017) [Link]
*SQUEEEEE!*
The return of the realtime tree Posted Jul 22, 2011 20:43 UTC (Fri) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]
Great news :) I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
The return of the realtime tree Posted Jul 24, 2011 12:43 UTC (Sun) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
We just added an amd64 realtime configuration to Debian unstable for Linux 3.0.
What I like about this Posted Jul 24, 2011 23:15 UTC (Sun) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
What I like about this, is that it looks like these changes are much closer to mainline, which will be easier to merge with mainline.
Everytime out-of-tree-code gets a bigger change of getting merged always makes me happy. :-)
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