Ingo, Could you add the attached patch to the RT patch. It fixes the memory corruption issue with the 2timer_test that we have been tracking down. Also, I think that del_timer_sync and friends need to be turned on if soft_irq is preemptable. Comments? -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/