Michael Schnell wrote: > >If you want the best available soft real-time on 2.6.22, there's a few > >patches from various people that aren't in standard kernels. > > > >The only one I know about for 2.6.2x is Ingo Molnar et al's > >RT-preemption patch set, which moves things like interrupts and soft > >interrupts into their own process contexts, so high real-time priority > >processes can still run ahead of them if appropriate, with priority > >inheritance on locks to prevent deadlocks, and which makes more locked > >regions in the kernel pre-emptible by higher priority processes to > >reduce the time in critical sections. > > I learned that > as of 2.6.22 "most" RT patches are integrated in the standard. I > supposed that this includes Ingo Molnar et al's RT-preemption patch set.
The rest are found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ I don't know what state they are in, but they seem to be very actively maintained. > Supposedly soon, I'll be working with µCLinux 2.6.23 on NIOS > architecture. I understand that some of the patches are architecture > specific and originally available just for x86. Maybe some work is > necessary here. Almost certainly. You might find the authors of the patches are quite happy to help, though. -- Jamie _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by [email protected] To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
