Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:08:37 +1000 (EST) | From | Damien Miller <> | Subject | Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux |
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Not if you read it this way: "we want feature XYZ, but we won't call > it RT, because then people will tell us to use RTLinux, and we don't > want to do that.".
They have given some good justification as to why RTLinux is not an ideal solution for them.
> I think people advocating the scheduling/preemption hacks should go > and run some exhaustive tests to find out how bad the latency can be > with said patch, and then identify where the remaining latencies are > coming from. Then fix the worst offender and run the tests again.
Which is actually what they are suggesting.
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