Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Mainlining PREEMPT_RT

[Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:32:38PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:42:30PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Now that it was announced in Dublin last week that mainlining
> > PREEMPT_RT has funding, I would like to propose a tech topic to discuss
> > what is needed to be done in the near future.
> > 
> > Thomas Gleixner and his minions will be doing the brunt of the work,
> > but there's issues that need to be addressed with the rest of the
> > kernel. The various topics would include:
> > 
> >  CPU hotplug
> >  preempt_disable and local_irq_disable annotations
> >  new timer_wheel implementation
> >  simple waitqueues
> >  trylock boosting
> > 
> > Several of the Real Time developers will be present at kernel summit. I
> > think this would be a great opportunity to have them be able to sit
> > down together and discuss the remaining issues.
> 
> I'm very interested in participating in this.
> 
> Is this a TECH topic or a CORE topic?

Apologies, this was from 2015. I failed to recognize that when searching for a
PREEMPT_RT TECH TOPIC proposal before responding to Davidlohr's self nomination
suggesting this topic.

Shall we recycle this topic for 2016 as well?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center