linux-kernel - Re: -rt7 announcement? (was Re: 2.6.18-rt6)

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Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:59:15 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Mark Knecht <markknecht@...il.com>
Cc:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	Manish Lachwani <mlachwani@...sta.com>, bastien.dugue@...l.net
Subject: Re: -rt7 announcement? (was Re: 2.6.18-rt6)

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 11:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>    Some differences/questions between 2.6.18-rt6 and 2.6.18-rt7:
> 
>    In 2.6.18-rt6, using make menuconfig, there were options on the
> front page for HRT Support. This seems to have moved under Processor
> Type with 2.6.18-rt7. Was that on purpose?

Yes

>    In 2.6.18-rt6 I turned on HRT support, left 1000 nanoseconds for
> the timing, but did not enable dynamic ticks since I wasn't sure it
> was OK on AMD64. Should I be using DynTicks with an AMD64 single
> processor? With a dual-processor?

Should work

>    On 2.6.18-rt7 it seems there is no time value setting or it's been
> moved somewhere I haven't found. does that 1000 nanosecond time
> setting still apply?

Basically yes. It is handled internally.

	tglx


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