Re: Cyclic Scheduling for linux

[George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

He is supposed to do this for a class.  I wonder if the teacher would give extra 
credits for grabbing on open source solution instead of writting the code...

But then you did not say the Concurrent thing was open source. :)

-g

Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>I am working on providing a cyclic scheduling policy
>>to the current non real time version of the linux to
>>support hard real time tasks as part of one of my
>>projects. This policy should be able to support
>>aperiodic, periodic and sporadic tasks too. Could any
>>one pour some light on how to go about achieving it?.
>>
>>Any Helpful tips, project reports, links or advices
>>are greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> I suppose you expect to write this, but if not,
> you can get it in Concurrent's Red Hawk Linux
> product.
> 
> Marketing says:
> 
> "RedHawk's Frequency-Based Scheduler (FBS) is a
> high-resolution task scheduler that enables the
> user to run processes in cyclical execution patterns.
> FBS can control the periodic execution of multiple,
> coordinated processes utilizing major and minor
> cycles with overrun detection. A performance
> monitor is also provided to view CPU utilization
> during each scheduled execution frame."
> 
> That's on a "real" Linux kernel, not like RTAI
> or RT-Linux. There are some other cool real-time
> features as well, and an Ada compiler if you're
> so inclined.
> 
> 
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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
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