From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752388Ab1HJBHt (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:07:49 -0400 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:53751 "EHLO e9.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751115Ab1HJBHr (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:07:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:07:45 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel , Thomas Gleixner , linux-rt-users Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt8 Message-ID: <20110810010745.GB2737@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1312580681.28695.44.camel@twins> <4E417D12.70608@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E417D12.70608@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:31:46AM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On 08/05/2011 02:44 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Since yesterday is old, and yesterday's kernels aren't interesting, > >here's a fresh one: 3.0.1-rt8. > > Hmmm, what are reasonable values for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO and > CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY? (or at least what are you using?). I think > CONFIG_RCU_BOOST should be working now so I should reenable the > option for my next build. I use the defaults, except when verifying that I can change them. ;-) Thanx, Paul > -- Fernando > > > >Aside from the obvious rebase to 3.0.1 changes include: > > > > - a fix from Rostedt for his cpupri rework involving memory ordering > > - a fix from me regarding this highmem muck, seeing as I mostly > > wrecked things last time around :-) > > - some lockdep annotations from upstream for things people were > > seeing here as well > > - a patch from Clark adding a sysfs file to recognize a PREEMP_RT > > kernel for udev -- is there really no saner solution !? > > - and a fresh raw_spinlock_t conversion of cpufreq_driver_lock, done > > just minutes before releasing this, to keep life interesting. > > > >Still working on the known issues from last time.. > > > >The patch is at: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-3.0.1-rt8.patch.bz2 > > > >The quilt series can be found here: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patches-3.0.1-rt8.tar.bz2 > > > >Once kernel.org mirrors catch up that is..