On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 09:28:19AM -0500, Shourya Sarcar wrote:
> Right on track Hanish !
> Linux (Standard) is NOT a Real time kernel. Without going into
> theories, lets look at it this way. Suppose you are reading data from the
> serial port and suddenly there is a disk interrupt. The linux kernel
> dumps whatever you are doing and runs to service the interrups which
> might take an unknown amount of time. So deadline meetings are impossible.
Linux doesn't have interrupt priority levels like traditional UNIX. It
either allows all interrupts or none.
-Arun
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