Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 8 authors, 2007-06-19

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

From: Paul E. McKenney <hidden>
Date: 2007-06-11 01:20:12
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On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:05:07PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
i'm pleased to announce the v2.6.21.4-rt11 kernel, which can be 
downloaded from the usual place:

     http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/
  
more info about the -rt patchset can be found in the RT wiki:
   
     http://rt.wiki.kernel.org

-rt11 is a bit more experimental than usual: it includes the CFS 
scheduler. Several people have suggested the inclusion of CFS into the 
-rt tree: the determinism of the CFS scheduler is a nice match to the 
determinism offered by PREEMPT_RT. The port of CFS to -rt was done by 
Dinakar Guniguntala. Tested on i686 and x86_64.

to build a 2.6.21.4-rt11 tree, the following patches should be applied:
  
    http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.21.4.tar.bz2
    http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.21.4-rt11
2.6.21.4-rt12 boots on 4-CPU Opteron and passes several hours of
rcutorture.  However, if I simply do "modprobe rcutorture", the kernel
threads do not spread across the CPUs as I would expect them to, even
given CFS.  Instead, the readers all stack up on a single CPU, and I
have to use the "taskset" command to spread them out manually.  Is there
some config parameter I am missing out on?

						Thanx, Paul
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