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

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Message-Id: <1171039439.3697.16.camel@chaos>
Date:	Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:43:59 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...esys.com>
To:	John <linux.kernel@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	mingo@...e.hu, johnstul@...ibm.com, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: One-shot high-resolution POSIX timer periodically late

John,

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:25 +0100, John wrote:
> I'm confused: patch-2.6.16-rt29-tglx3 is dated 2006-09-07, yet there
> have been numerous revisions of the -rt patch set since then. Does that
> mean that no serious bugs have been found since September? Do the -rt
> patch sets for 2.6.17 - 2.6.20 only bring new features and/or adapt the
> -rt infrastructure to the newer kernels?

There were many bugs found, but mostly related to the newer versions of
the code or features, which have been added after 2.6.16-rt29. My -tglx
series has the back ports of fixes which were applicable to 2-6-16-rt29.

	tglx


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