Re: Cyclictest expected results

2007-10-02 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:00:42AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote: /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource : tsc pit jiffies Can you try to enable ACPI on the box and check if you get an acpi_pm? Robert -- Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry

Re: FAQ for realtime support in Linux Kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello Theodore, At some point it would be good to add some commentary about the resulting throughput degradation (which is why I kept the question open-ended about performance, instead of latency). Is there still a throughput degradation noticeable on some platforms? I know for sure it was

2.6.23-rc9-rt1

2007-10-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
We are pleased to announce the 2.6.23-rc9-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the new location: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ Changes since 2.6.23-rc9-rt1 - update to 2.6.23-rc9 - Various cleanups (Daniel Walker) - convert PICK_OP to PICK_FUNCTION - use

Re: 2.6.23-rc9-rt1

2007-10-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: We are pleased to announce the 2.6.23-rc9-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the new location: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ Changes since 2.6.23-rc9-rt1 Note, that should have been Changes since 2.6.23-rc8-rt1. --

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-10-02 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 09/30, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:02:09PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Ah, but I asked the different question. We must see CPU 1's stores by definition, but what about CPU 0's stores (which could be seen by CPU 1)?

Re: [HACK] convert i_alloc_sem for direct_io.c craziness!

2007-10-02 Thread Zach Brown
On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 12:52 -0700, Zach Brown wrote: Do you have any suggestions for locking constructs that RT would prefer? Basically, anything that maps to a simple mutex. Anything more complex gets real messy real quick. I'm worried

Re: [HACK] convert i_alloc_sem for direct_io.c craziness!

2007-10-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi Zach! Thanks for the responses. -- On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Zach Brown wrote: On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 12:52 -0700, Zach Brown wrote: Do you have any suggestions for locking constructs that RT would prefer? Basically, anything that

Re: [HACK] convert i_alloc_sem for direct_io.c craziness!

2007-10-02 Thread Zach Brown
This looks more like a completion. Actually, completions don't have PI either, but they are usually OK. Yeah, true. When more info becomes available, I will definitely CC the linux- fsdevel list. Thanks for letting me know about it. (I usually get confused by all the different lists that

Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] Implement generic time of day clocksource for powerpc machines.

2007-10-02 Thread Paul Mackerras
Tony Breeds writes: @@ -982,6 +906,10 @@ void __init time_init(void) write_sequnlock_irqrestore(xtime_lock, flags); + /* Register the clocksource, if we're not running on iSeries */ + if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_ISERIES)) + clocksource_init(); This

Re: 2.6.23-rc9-rt1

2007-10-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Clark Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Rostedt wrote: That last change (new Preempt RCU) is highly experimental!!! We are currently testing it now, although it has been through some minor tests already, we haven't