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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:54:02 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>, Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1] * Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:19:07PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce the 2.6.18-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded > > from the usual place: > ... > > as usual, bugreports, fixes and suggestions are welcome, > > Speaking of which... > > This patch moves put_task_struct() reaping into a thread instead of an > RCU callback function [...] had some time to think about it since yesterday: RCU reaping is done in softirqs (check out the softirq-rcu threads on your -rt box), that's why i removed the delayed-task-drop code to begin with. Now i dont doubt that you saw crashes under 2.6.17 - but did you manage to figure out what the reason is for those crashes, and do those reasons really necessiate the pushing of task-reapdown into yet another set of kernel threads? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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