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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes: >> > > To the best of my understanding, this still doesn't provide >> > > deterministic hard-real-time performance in Linux. >> > >> > Using only the VP+IRQ thread patch, I ran my RT app for 11 million >> > cycles yesterday, with a maximum delay of 190 usecs. How would this not >> > satisfy a 200 usec hard RT constraint? >> >> I think the keyword here is "deterministic", isn't it? > > Well, depends what you mean by deterministic. Some RT apps only require > an upper bound on response time. This is a form of determinism. Sure, but running for a zillion cycles without breaking some limit doesn't guarantee that it never will happen. Being able to give such a guarantee is what determinism is about. -- Måns Rullgård mru@mru.ath.cx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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