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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Driver with hard RT requiremnets
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:35:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161205143506.GA5149@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ2oMh+6LgsL-F5sKtPoisG+qpx9vFMUimOV1Do2pk4tAmJ08A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:24:05PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We need to support serial driver with real time requirements (towards specific
> device with RT demands):
> Every 5.3msec receive 100 bytes and 1.3msec afterwards send 100 bytes.
> 
> 1. Does kernel support real-time of such hard requirements ?

It depends on the hardware you are using, does your hardware provide
enough processing power and lack of harware interruptions (i.e. SMI) to
allow this to work properly?

> 2. Is it matter if we do the exact bytes send/receive from kernel or userspace,
> i.e. is kernel more real-time than userspace ?

It depends on your userspace code, people write real-time Java code in
userspace just fine.

> 3. Is mainline kernel unable to support such requirements and we better use RT
> patch such as xemonai ?

Why not try it out yourself and see?  You have the code and the hardware
to test, you don't need us to tell you if this works or not :)

good luck!

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05 14:24 Driver with hard RT requiremnets Ran Shalit
2016-12-05 14:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-12-05 14:49   ` Ran Shalit
2016-12-05 14:54     ` Greg KH

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