Congrats and thanks for all the hard work. You guys make it possible. - Mark On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt > series. > > - forward to 2.6.31.12 > > - large number of RCU assumption fixes vs. cred and tasklist_lock > > - Priority Inheritance POSIX compliance fix > > - workaround for Priority Protection POSIX compliance problem > > - misc. fixlets here and there > > It took quite a while to get this update out for various reasons: > > - mainline merge of the locking infrastructure changes which are a > further milestone on the way to full rt integration. That merge > will shave off a large portion of the rt patch (don't worry, we > have enough new and exiting stuff in the pipeline to keep the > patch size large enough) > > - fixing RCU assumptions in mainline and backport to 31-rt > > - lots of brain twisting around the POSIX scheduling policy > compliance problems which got reported vs. Priority > Inheritance/Protection > > - an extended christmas break and the resulting email backlog > > - our new housemate: http://tglx.de/~tglx/housemate.png > > Further plans: > > - a last big feature for 31-rt is pending, which is worth a separate > release: Nick Piggins VFS scalability patches. I'm still running > tests on that, so no promise. > > - I'm going to switch 31-rt into maintaince mode (with or without > the VFS patches) and concentrate on getting .33-rcX-rt out. Yes, > there will be no .32-rt. The reason is simply that the locking > changes which got merged into .33 are making my life easier and > are the base to sort out more ready for the mainline stuff. > > Download locations: > > http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/ (temporary out of sync) > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ > > Git release branch: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git rt/2.6.31 > > Git development branch: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git rt/head > > Gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=shortlog;h=rt/2.6.31 > > Information on the RT patch can be found at: > > http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page > > to build the 2.6.31.12-rt20 tree, the following patches should be > applied: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.31.12.tar.bz2 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.31.12-rt20.bz2 > > Enjoy ! > > 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
