Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-10 Thread Eugeny S. Mints
Russell King wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:41:10AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: All I want to do is integrate the common IRQ threading code. To do that I need things , from Russell, like per descriptor locks .. And I need things , from Ingo, like pulling out the IRQ threading code.. I'v

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:41:10AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > All I want to do is integrate the common IRQ threading code. To do that > I need things , from Russell, like per descriptor locks .. And I need > things , from Ingo, like pulling out the IRQ threading code.. I've said why per-I

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 04:50, Russell King wrote: > What you'll find is that the ARM interrupt structure is designed to > efficiently meet the requirements of our wide range of hardware interrupt > controllers, with chained interrupt controllers, with as low latency as > possible. > > In essence,

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Russell, On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:50 +, Russell King wrote: > > > We have done the conversion to the generic irq handling and it works > > > fine on a couple of machines. > > > > great - this would be a much preferred approach indeed. > > Well, I remain unconvinced about the generic irq han

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:36 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > The biggest point of discussion relates to the interrupts in threads > > > implementation. It is largely identical

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:31 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I'm just waiting until the new SMP bits are there before I have > > another go and clean up the missing SMP bits. > > any chances for (most of) these bits going upstream as well? In any > case, the -RT tree can be a testbed for this. I gue

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:36 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > The biggest point of discussion relates to the interrupts in threads > > implementation. It is largely identical to what is implemented in the > > generic irq handling. However, ARM doesn

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:36 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > The biggest point of discussion relates to the interrupts in threads > implementation. It is largely identical to what is implemented in the > generic irq handling. However, ARM doesn't not implement generic irq > handling, and will not sup

Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-05 Thread Daniel Walker
This is a release of Preempt Real-time for ARM . It includes everything up to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT , and all of the latency tracing except interrupts off timing. The timing also excludes syscalls. This patch includes only a port to OMAP boards. However, it should be straight forward to get it working