Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Sat, 01 Jul 2000 09:17:06 -0700


> I am nervous about this characterization. As I have said many times,
> "hard realtime" normally *implies* a lot more than we need for
> real-time audio+MIDI applications. All we need is guaranteed
> scheduling response. We don't need QOS guarantees for any other
> subsystems, for example (it would be nice, but its not necessary).

"All we need is guaranteed scheduling response". But it's not real time.

Those two statements are 100% at odds with each other.

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