Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

[Rui Sousa]

Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
...
> Because RTLinux can give you what you need.
> 
> Because it doesn't require you to hack up the kernel.
> 
> Because it is far more scalable and reliable.
> 
> Because it is cool.
> 
> Because your approach is the same tired bag of mistakes that helped make
> other operating systems piles of sh*t.
> 

The approach can be wrong but you certainly agree that there are "sane"
design solutions which can both improve raw performance and low latency.
Otherwise we might as well stop here (kernel development) since it won't
get any better.

The initial e-mail focused on a set of patches you don't agree with
but it also asked for what type of solution would be accepted (the GOOD
solution). I think this is a more valuable point of discussion.

Just my 0.02 euro.

Rui Sousa