On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Simon Patience wrote:
> |> If your timing contraints are so narrow that it doesnt,
> |> then you'll (most probably) need RTlinux anyway...
>
> I don't buy that. There are many latency bound applications that would
> work perfectly fine with standard Linux if only they could guarantee
> that they could 'own' a cpu, i.e. bind them selves to it and exclude
> everyone else from using it.
That would have to include bottom half processing,
which currently cannot be excluded on standard Linux.
Or, more probably, I am overlooking a usage pattern
which I've never seen before and can't imagine without
a hint :)
Rik
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