linux-kernel - Re: One-shot high-resolution POSIX timer periodically late

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Date:	Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:32:42 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...esys.com>
To:	John <linux.kernel@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, mingo@...e.hu,
	johnstul@...ibm.com, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: One-shot high-resolution POSIX timer periodically late

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:25 +0100, John wrote:
> Are there people that use the -rt patch set in real industrial applications?

Yes. But we use a stabilized version of 2.6.16-rt29.
http://www.osadl.org/projects/downloads/preempt-rt/linux-2.6.16/

> It seems that, if an important bug is found in the -rt part, I will have 
> to either upgrade to the latest kernel, or back port all the -rt changes 
> to the kernel I chose for my application?

Yep.

	tglx


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