Re: 2.6.17-rc6-rt3

From: Sébastien Dugué
Date: Mon Jun 12 2006 - 05:16:52 EST


On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i have released the 2.6.17-rc6-rt3 tree, which can be downloaded from
> the usual place:
>
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
>
> this is a fixes-only release: lots of fixes from Thomas Gleixner (for
> the softirq problem that caused those ping latency weirdnesses, for
> hrtimers and timers problems and for the RCU related bug that was
> causing instability and more), John Stultz, Jan Altenberg and Clark
> Williams. MIPS update from Manish Lachwani. Futex fix from Dinakar
> Guniguntala. It also includes the RT-scheduling SMP fix that could fix
> the scheduling problem reported by Darren Hart.
>
> I think all of the regressions reported against rt1 are fixed, please
> re-report if any of them is still unfixed.
>

Great, boots fine on my dual Xeon and solves the ping problem I was
having.

Thomas, any hint at what was going on?

Thanks,

Sébastien.

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