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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] RT Task RPC over a POSIX/Native Queue
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> As you do not care about determinism of the network communication, you
> also do not need RTnet. It would only introduce the risk that non-RT
> network participant overload your box. And this load would show up in
> the RT domain because RTnet would have to handle it.

You can solve that by limiting the non real-time traffic to a maximum
rate, and always keep some bandwidth for the real-time traffic. This is
a bit more complicated than nomac, but not that much. But of course if
you do not need packets to be sent ASAP, I agree that rtnet is overkill.

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                                          Gilles