I looked at those results and noticed that they were not using the
POSIX RT features the normal linux provides.  Also, the numbers look
suspect anyway, it looks like a lot of swapping might be taking place
during these tests.

POSIX-RT should give you decent 10ms level scheduling is user-land.

On  4 Mar, Thomas Fruehbeck wrote:
> 
> That's a choke!
> 
> Please have a look into 'Linux Device Drivers' by Alessandro Rubini, if you doubt it.
> Anyway I would advise you to read this book, before believing in test results like
> the one you refer to.
> 
> Thomas 
> 
> 
>> > Where did You take the information, that plain Linux may block interrupts
>> > for 10's of milliseconds?
>> 
>> 
>> In:
>> 
>> http://www.zentropix.com/realtime/testdata/si.html
>> 
>> there is a study which shows that the interrupt response of Std-Linux
>> can be ut to 27.5 ms at full load.

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