Re: Real time response under linux

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:06:38 +0100 (BST)

> If anybody is working on using Linux for real time control or knows how
> I could possibly address the above problems I would like to hear from
> you. I have considered writing a real time executive which would run
> linux as a 'task' - would anybody like to comment?

Firstly Linux has a timer resolution of about 0.9uS, it has a clock running
at 100Hz but the two are different. gettimeofday() returns a very accurate
figure.

There is a Linux over real time executive project, being led by Victor
Yodaiken (a search for the name will find you the web links to this). This
is doing hard real time as opposed to the soft real time already present.

Alan