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SubjectRe: Scheduling Times --- Revisited
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 12:46:56PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Adding another one for RT tasks won't be a problem, all we
> have to do is make sure that the highest-priority RT task
> is up front (this shouldn't be hard as a proper RT system
> doesn't have more than 1 RT task on the queue, because of
> that the overhead will be absolutely minimal).

Don't count on that. More and more desktop-level applications need
good RT capabilities, everything that looms under the "multimedia"
label. Games come to mind, and video/audio applications too. As soon
as Linux gets good user-level capabilities, they will be used.

For a more real-world example of RT-(over?)use, see BeOS.

OG.


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