Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

[Larry McVoy]

> > Perhaps you would care to explain why it is that you can't do exactly
> > what you want with RT Linux?  If you did that, then you might find either
> > (a) that you are mistaken about the limitations of RT Linux, or (b) the
> > RT Linux folks will provide what you need.
> 
> 1) Extensive floating point math.

Why is it that you think RT Linux can't do that?

> 2) Intelligent useage of SMP for heavy computation that joins to a single
> 	data flow node.

Ditto?

> Can RTLinux be distributed to 2-4 processors ?

Sure.

> Can it do math ?
> 

Sure.

> bill

--lm