Re: RT patch acceptance

Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-05-29T01:53:41Z

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Bill Huey wrote:

> > It isn't clear to me yet. I'm sure you can make your interrupt
> > latencies look good, as with your scheduling latencies. But when
>
> My project was getting a solid spike at 4 usec for irq-thread
> startups and Ingo's stuff is better. It's already there.

Is that worst case?

> > I wouldn't consider a non response (or a late response) to mean that
> > a point has been conceeded, or that I've won any kind of argument :-)
>
> Well, you're wrong. :)
>
> Well, uh, ummm, start writing RT media apps and you will know what
> I'm talking about. Dual kernel stuff isn't going to fly with those
> folks especially with an RT patch as good as this already in the
> general kernel. More experience with this kind of programming makes
> it clear where the failures are with a dual kernel approach.

Media apps are actually not that commonplace as far as hard realtime
applications are concerned.

Zwane