On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > 2009/10/6 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote: > >> > But I was wondering if you missed this one: > >> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50044/ > >> > >> Yup, slipped through. Queued for the next release. > > > > Correction. I dropped the patch as it is just a sloppy work around. > > Why creating the thread in the first place ? Real fix below. > > Well, I noticed a few minutes ago that the sirq-hrtimer is > periodically being scheduled (every 50msec here) > It does not do much, but it still it does something... (no idea what though) Yeah, noticed as well. It's due to the deferred handling of signal based timers. > So, is it really right to prevent it from starting up? Nope. We just name it unconditionally :) Thanks, tglx -- 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
