linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.31.2-rt13

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910131910030.9428@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:11:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Remy Bohmer <linux@...mer.net>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.31.2-rt13

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> 2009/10/6 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>:
> > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> >> > But I was wondering if you missed this one:
> >> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50044/
> >>
> >> Yup, slipped through. Queued for the next release.
> >
> > Correction. I dropped the patch as it is just a sloppy work around.
> > Why creating the thread in the first place ? Real fix below.
> 
> Well, I noticed a few minutes ago that the sirq-hrtimer is
> periodically being scheduled (every 50msec here)
> It does not do much, but it still it does something... (no idea what though)

Yeah, noticed as well. It's due to the deferred handling of signal
based timers.
 
> So, is it really right to prevent it from starting up?

Nope. We just name it unconditionally :)

Thanks,

	tglx
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