Re: Realtime-preemption for 2.6.20-rc5 ?

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On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 00:39 +0100, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> Hello Sunil and Ingo,
> 
> Date: 2007-01-20 02:56:40 GMT (20 hours and 26 minutes ago)
> > 2007-01-20, Sunil Naidu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I did refer the same. Is it necessary to use only base kernel, say
> > 2.6.19? Or, can I go ahead with 2.6.19 + 2.6.19.2 patch + 2.6.19-rt
> > patch?
> >
> > If yes, any reason why we need to apply rt patch only to a base kernel?
> 
> according to my observation 2.6.19-rt15 is based/includes 2.6.19.1 changes.
> 
> But there has been that nasty clear_page_dirty_for_io() bug causing
> corruption of ext3. Even that I have tested more 2.6.20-rc + rt, 

> I preffer
> to stay on "stable" kernel on boxes which I use daily until next stable
> appears.

This is a very weird statement, the -rt kernel includes so much
experimental work it cannot be called 'stable' by a long shot.

Sure its not known unstable, but neither is .20-rc5.

If you want -rt, just run with the latest unless you have a very
specific need not to.

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