linux-kernel - Re: [announce] split-up -rt patch-queue, v2.6.22.1-rt2

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Message-Id: <1184257998.7974.44.camel@dhcp193.mvista.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:33:18 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [announce] split-up -rt patch-queue, v2.6.22.1-rt2

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 17:37 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We are pleased to announce something we've been working on for some 
> time: a finegrained, split-up patch queue of the -rt kernel patch. From 
> now on (as of 2.6.22.1-rt2) it will be part of every upstream -rt 
> release and it is available from the -rt download site:
> 
>    http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> the -rt patch-queue consists of 374 patches at the moment, which do:
> 
>    698 files changed, 27920 insertions(+), 9603 deletions(-)

Is the number of patches relevant to you ? It seems like some patches
could be boken out more. For instance there could be a per-architecture
patch dedicated to converting spinlocks to raw spinlocks .. I was
looking at preempt-realtime-i386.patch ..

Daniel

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