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From: Bill Huey (hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To: Bernhard Kuhn <bkuhn@metrowerks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Bill Huey (hui)" <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: [announcement, patch] real-time interrupts for the Linux kernel
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:02:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040111000211.GA3056@gnuppy.monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFE078D.20400@metrowerks.com>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:44:45AM +0100, Bernhard Kuhn wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I hope that i can steal enough of your precious time to get
> your attention for a new patch that adds hard real time support
> to the linux kernel (worst case interrupt response time below
> 5 microseconds):
> 
> The proposed "real time interrupt patch" enables the linux
> kernel for hard-real-time applications such as data aquisition
> and control loops by adding priorities to interrupts and spinlocks.
> 
> The following document will describe the patch in detail and how
> to install it:
> 
> http://home.t-online.de/home/Bernhard_Kuhn/rtirq/20040108/README
...

Also,
	http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3235024671.html

It's kind of a cool patch. I'm surprised that nobody's commented on this
so far. Basically, if I understand this, this uses IO-APIC hardware
assistance for getting some notion of prioritized interrupts and a other
goodies. Just ran into the article now, but the original email post flew
under my radar. /me reads more

bill


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-11  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09  1:44 [announcement, patch] real-time interrupts for the Linux kernel Bernhard Kuhn
2004-01-11  0:02 ` Bill Huey [this message]
2004-01-11  9:14 ` Voicu Liviu
2004-01-11 16:38   ` Bernhard Kuhn
2004-01-11 19:35     ` Voicu Liviu
2004-01-11 13:24 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-01-11 16:48   ` Bernhard Kuhn

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