Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:19:41 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: new IRQ scalability changes in 2.3.48 |
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:09:53AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > So you can have a high priority thread that can process audio in real > time (for example), or a softmodem user space driver (other completely > random example). Note that RTLinux isn't really suitable for those -- > RTLinux isolates the real time process too much. And super-hard isn't > required for those applications anyway.
That's exactly why it gets very low latency without making Linux more complicated or slow. The vast majority of users either need hard realtime or don't and in both cases, the simplicity and high performance of Linux kernel is critical. If you want to sacrifice the core value of the kernel, you should need a compelling argument. BTW: there are RTLinux apps that process audio.
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