Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

[Esben Nielsen]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Well, here it finally is. There's still things I don't like about it. 
> > But it seems to work, and that's the important part.
> > 
> > I had to reluctantly add two items to the task_struct.  I was hoping 
> > to avoid that. But because of race conditions it seemed to be the only 
> > way.
> 
> well it's not a big problem, and we avoided having to add flags to the 
> rt_lock structure, which is the important issue.
> 
I was going to say the opposit. I know that there are many more rt_locks
locks around and the fields thus will take more memory when put there but
I believe it is more logical to have the fields there.

Esben

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