On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:07:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > BTW. I wonder about other architectures that are of interest to -rt? Like > > mips or arm perhaps... Any plans to implement ticket locks on those, or > > do they not tend to be used in SMP configurations on -rt yte? > > I think both are starting to show more and more SMP machines, so yes, > eventually we'll want ticket locks for them too. > > That said, I'm not aware of anyone working on it - I suppose we could > poke the regular arch maintainers.. Ralf, Russell ? I looked into this a bit and we definately need it. One large MIPS user already had converted his kernel to ticket locks due to an excessive number of cacheline bounces having been observed. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
