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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Felix Oxley <lkml@oxley.org>
Cc: kernel@wolff-online.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Good performance (hard realtime ??) on 2.6.16 patched with patch-2.6.16-rt29 from Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:26:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150125964.22720.40.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FEBBD28D-B00D-42DB-A2EB-13A501D7FBC2@oxley.org>

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:12 +0100, Felix Oxley wrote:
> (Regarding Hard Real Time, my understanding is that that depends on a
> _guarantee_ that the system will always be able to produce the  
> 'result' within the required interval. Ingo's -rt patches may give  
> exceedingly good responsiveness but they offer no guarantees, so they
> cannot be considered Hard Real Time) 

The -rt kernel is capable of hard realtime, modulo any bugs, but no one
has yet done an analysis of the few non-preemptible code paths to
determine what guarantees it can make.

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-12 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-12  9:50 Good performance (hard realtime ??) on 2.6.16 patched with patch-2.6.16-rt29 from Ingo Molnar kernel
2006-06-12 10:12 ` Felix Oxley
2006-06-12 11:06   ` Carl, Wolff
2006-06-12 15:26   ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-06-13 11:08     ` Esben Nielsen

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