how does Real-time Linux and (Xen) Virtualization work together?

2008-01-29 Thread Gautam Thaker
how well would a set of 2 real-time Linux guest OSes work on top of a dom0 host that would be based on real-time linux? Has real-time and virtualization interactions been studied in any details? I am not even sure if a real-time Linux can be the host OS for hosting guest OSes, can it? Gautam

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-rt1: Strange latencies on mpc5200 powerpc - RCU issue?

2008-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
Luotao Fu wrote: Hi, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: .. Do you still get high latencies with: CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU_BOOST=y CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set With this setting I have not yet realized latencies 150us. Could you please give it a try? If I change one of

Re: X86 Pentium M platform troubles at low temperatures

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Beck
Update: the RT patch seems to be irrelevant. Something that changed between 2.6.18 from Suse 10.2 and the vanilla 2.6.24 (not RT patched) causes 2.6.24 to fail to boot at cold temperatures. THis is very strange. It does work at normal temperatures, and Suse 10.2 works even at the cold

Re: X86 Pentium M platform troubles at low temperatures

2008-01-29 Thread Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:40 -0800, Jim Beck wrote: Update: the RT patch seems to be irrelevant. Something that changed between 2.6.18 from Suse 10.2 and the vanilla 2.6.24 (not RT patched) causes 2.6.24 to fail to boot at cold temperatures. THis is very strange. It does work at normal

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-rt1: Strange latencies on mpc5200 powerpc - RCU issue?

2008-01-29 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:38:04PM +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: Luotao Fu wrote: Hi, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: .. Do you still get high latencies with: CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU_BOOST=y CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set With this setting I have not yet