Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:47:45 -0600


On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:16:13PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > - Use Linus' trick of a multi threaded UP kernel using
> > > SMP locks (2.5 material), also hated by Larry/Victor.
> >
> > I don't hate it at all. I think it will add serious overhead, but
> > it is a clean design that can be turned off.
>
> It will have about the same overhead as running a RTLinux kernel only that
> better latency is also available to user space.

I predict not, but since everyone agrees that this experiment should
be tried, let's see what happens.

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