Re: [RFC,PATCH] RCU and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT sane patch

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:15:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > The attached patch passes 20 hours of the internal-to-RCU torture test 
> > (see the code in the attached patch under CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST), 
> > which is a good improvement over last week's version, which would fail 
> > this test in less than two seconds -- this despite passing kernbench 
> > with flying colors and passing LTP 90% of the time.  Sometimes there 
> > is no substitute for a good in-kernel stress test...
> > 
> > The attached version of the patch seems to me to be ready for a larger 
> > audience.
> 
> Cool! I've merged your patch to the -52-12 version of the -RT patch. You 
> can get it from the usual place:
> 
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> also, i've attached a port against 2.6.13-rc4. I have done this because 
> the PREEMPT_RCU patch in my tree is applied before the core-PREEMPT_RT 
> patch. I have fixed up the CONFIG_PREEMPT compilation branch and have 
> removed your #error define - it built and booted fine on an UP box but 
> there are no guarantees ...

Sounds great!!!  I will give it a thorough hammering in both the
CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT environments.

							Thanx, Paul
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