[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Mainlining PREEMPT_RT

[Josh Triplett]

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 would love to discuss this at Kernel Summit.

- Josh Triplett