Re: One-shot high-resolution POSIX timer periodically late

[John <linux.kernel@free.fr>]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> John wrote:
>
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > > John wrote:
> > >
> > > > John Stultz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Also do check the -rt tree as Ingo suggested. I mis-read your earlier
> > > > > email and thought you were running it.
> > > >
> > > > I've been pulling my hair over a related issue for the past two days.
> > > >
> > > > (I think I may be tickling a -hrt bug...)
> > > >
> > > > I'm working with 2.6.18.6 + patch-2.6.18-rt7
> > >
> > > 2.6.18-rt7 is pretty old, do you see the problem in 2.6.20-rc6-rt5 too?
> >
> > Ingo, Thomas,
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the -rt patch set is only updated for the latest 
> > kernel version available. Is that correct?
> >
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/?M=D
> >
> > In other words, once 2.6.20 is released, and work starts on 2.6.21, if a 
> > bug is discovered in -rt, the fix will not be back-ported to the 
> > 2.6.20.x (and 2.6.19.x, and 2.6.18.x, etc) patch set?
>
> Correct, there is only 1 live branch.

Are there people that use the -rt patch set in real industrial applications?

It seems that, if an important bug is found in the -rt part, I will have 
to either upgrade to the latest kernel, or back port all the -rt changes 
to the kernel I chose for my application?

Regards,

John

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