real-time priority

[Rodrigo Amestica <ramestica@lavabit.com>]

Hi,

general questions from somebody who's just starting to look into the 
preempt patch.

the article linked below makes direct reference to the behavior of the 
preempt rt patch. The article was written in 2007. How much of that 
still holds true in the current version of the patch?

I'm basically wondering about the first sentences in the abstract of 
that article. The big picture seems to be rather simple: calls to 
specific linux services could break the performance of a real time task 
by depending on lower priority tasks to complete that service.

Does this mean that one must always be alert to which system services 
are invoked during the execution of a real time task? Does the vanilla 
kernel or the preempt-rt patch tries to somehow detect this condition 
and alert somehow?

thanks,
 Rodrigo