From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antoine Nourry Subject: Real-Time & Determinism Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 15:04:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4A17F444.6070005@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp19.orange.fr ([80.12.242.18]:51498 "EHLO smtp19.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751919AbZEWND7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 09:03:59 -0400 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1917.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 0EA8920000B2 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 15:04:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ACaen-251-1-54-164.w83-115.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.115.196.164]) by mwinf1917.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 4071620000B3 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 15:03:59 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi to all, why can we read everywhere that Preempt_RT offers hard real time capabilities while on another hand we can find in some papers that it is not deterministic and only gives assurance to obtain low latencies ? is it real time or not (deterministic) ? if yes, is it hard or soft RT ? Please excuse me if i've missed something important. Thanks for your work, Antoine