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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