ucLibc Futex(PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT) support for RT kernel

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 18:03:00 UTC 2009


On (19/07/09 06:39), shamiali2008 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a Gumstix verdex board which runs buildroot linux
> kernel(2.6.21). We have applied CONFIG PREEMPT RT patch to the kernel and
> its now having great user space latency improvements.
> 
> The issue here is as per RT WIki, the ucLibc library is not fully complaint
> with RT patch as it lacks futex support- PI-Futex(Priority Inheritance:
> PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT ).
> 
> http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/HOWTO:_Build_an_RT-application
> 
> Please let me know, if anybody has a solution for this? Or is there any
> patch available to ucLibc to include this support?

I havent seen one yet.
Thx

-Khem


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