Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

From: Damien Miller (djm@mindrot.org)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2000 - 20:08:37 EST


On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Not if you read it this way: "we want feature XYZ, but we won't call
> it RT, because then people will tell us to use RTLinux, and we don't
> want to do that.".

They have given some good justification as to why RTLinux is not an
ideal solution for them.

> I think people advocating the scheduling/preemption hacks should go
> and run some exhaustive tests to find out how bad the latency can be
> with said patch, and then identify where the remaining latencies are
> coming from. Then fix the worst offender and run the tests again.

Which is actually what they are suggesting.

-d

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