linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.10.4-rt1

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Date:	Sat, 03 Aug 2013 07:20:57 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.10.4-rt1

On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 10:19 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 
> Yep, 3.8 shuffled TIF_MEMDIE to the end of the queue, but
> in 3.10, mainline commit 22ecbe8dcef has already done that trick.
> 
> The list of donor victims that aren't used in asm is getting
> smaller, but TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG seems OK and it puts RESCHED
> and RESCHED_LAZY right beside each other.

Worst case we can turn it into a 32-bit and but I'd rather avoid it
as long as we can :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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