Re: [Xenomai-help] RT Task RPC over a POSIX/Native Queue

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> 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.

Right. But the problem, err, challenge is that this rate limiting has to
be installed either into the switch/router that your RT box is attached
to or into all nodes that may talk to it.

Jan

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