Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2005 20:38:42 -0400 | From | Karim Yaghmour <> | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance |
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Bill Huey (hui) wrote: > This is really interesting code. It's really not unlike what preempt RT > is already doing with the atomic locking (replacement). From the looks > of it conversion of an ethernet driver to be RT capable is shockingly > trivial.
It is. In some cases you need to provide alternate functions, but in most not ... However, note that this is for UDP. There is no such thing as deterministic TCP.
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