Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Simon Patience wrote:
> > |> If your timing contraints are so narrow that it doesnt,
> > |> then you'll (most probably) need RTlinux anyway...
> >
> > I don't buy that. There are many latency bound applications that would
> > work perfectly fine with standard Linux if only they could guarantee
> > that they could 'own' a cpu, i.e. bind them selves to it and exclude
> > everyone else from using it.
>
> That would have to include bottom half processing,
> which currently cannot be excluded on standard Linux.
True, I had forgotten that. But that is not a big deal necessarily.
> Or, more probably, I am overlooking a usage pattern
> which I've never seen before and can't imagine without
> a hint :)
Talking to media server people they say, sure we would like a full real
time, all singing, all dancing system, but seeing you are not going
to give us that, just give us a cpu and we will be happy.
Simon.
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