From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946646AbXBIQol (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:44:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946667AbXBIQoT (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:44:19 -0500 Received: from 65-117-135-114.dia.static.qwest.net ([65.117.135.114]:60084 "EHLO postfix.timesys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946659AbXBIQoQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:44:16 -0500 Subject: Re: One-shot high-resolution POSIX timer periodically late From: Thomas Gleixner To: John Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu, johnstul@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <45CC9257.8080806@free.fr> References: <45C75D2D.9010506@free.fr> <1170747081.4672.11.camel@twins> <45C9A8FE.3090705@free.fr> <1170955962.3646.51.camel@chaos> <45CC9257.8080806@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:43:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1171039439.3697.16.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John, On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:25 +0100, John wrote: > I'm confused: patch-2.6.16-rt29-tglx3 is dated 2006-09-07, yet there > have been numerous revisions of the -rt patch set since then. Does that > mean that no serious bugs have been found since September? Do the -rt > patch sets for 2.6.17 - 2.6.20 only bring new features and/or adapt the > -rt infrastructure to the newer kernels? There were many bugs found, but mostly related to the newer versions of the code or features, which have been added after 2.6.16-rt29. My -tglx series has the back ports of fixes which were applicable to 2-6-16-rt29. tglx