What you said is true. However, on the transmit side, the host might still want to pump out traffic at a constant rate, for example, when sending out video, it would be nice if each frame is sent out every 1/60 second.
Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: Calin A. Culianu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [rtl] How to have real-time networking > > > > I am probably super-naive.. but aren't networks inherently > non-realtime? > Ethernet, for instance, has a some inherent non-determinism and chaos > associated with it (collosions and the back-off algorithms > come to mind). > Don't such things pretty much throw all realtime expectations out the > window? > > However, I am pretty naive about this.. anyone care to correct me? > > -Calin > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, R O N A L D D U C K wrote: > > > I am planning to use network support in my real-time section of my > > application. But I could not see any real-time API meant > for RT-Linux. I > > have doubt wheather rtlinux supports real-time networking > like using TCP/IP > > UDP/IP socket communication, if so how to use it. If not > what will be the > > best way to implement the networking in real-time. > > > > What exactly I am planning do is > > > > I will have a thread which will listen on a particular > socket using TCP/IP > > or UDP/IP, > > When ever there is some data received through the socket, I > want to process > > it and send it to other real-time threads for their use. > > > > Please tell me how to achieve this in real-time because, I > know how it can > > be done non real-time. One more thing, If I call any non > real-time functions > > from real-time threads will it introduce a priority > inversion. Please advice > > > > Regards > > RD > > -- [rtl] --- > > To unsubscribe: > > echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR > > echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > For more information on Real-Time Linux see: > > http://www.rtlinux.org/ > > > > -- [rtl] --- > To unsubscribe: > echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR > echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > For more information on Real-Time Linux see: > http://www.rtlinux.org/ > > -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/
