Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:24:12 -0600


On Fri Jun 30, 2000 at 12:37:49AM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote:
>
> We have what we believe to be a very good hard realtime programming model.
> It forces you to decouple your realtime code and your non-realtime code.
> What we'd like to do is allow RTLinux to use the structure your normal
> Linux code already has to do this implicitly by executing your code in
> RTLinux but not forcing you to adopt the RTLinux programming model.

This is what RTAI gives you already. And with LXRT you can do
everything in user space, which is worth the 5 usec hit.

-Erik

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