Hi Daniel,
You wrote:
> Peter Wurmsdobler wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > 1. Would an ordinary linux kernel be sufficient or do I have
> > to use rt-linux in order to guarantee that this periodic task
> > can not be interrupted by any other interrupt?
>
> It depends on the sampling frecuency, but in a general purpose operating
> systems the interrupts can be bloqued for 10's of milliseconds, so if
> you need more than 100 Hz of Sampling freq. you need RT-Linux.
>
Where did You take the information, that plain Linux may block interrupts
for 10's of milliseconds?
To me this seems queer. I can not imagine my Linux box (compile, install, X, Xvnc
server)
would reach it's phantastic performance, if any driver would think of blocking
interrupts for even 1 millisec.
Thomas
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