Re: [linux-audio-dev] priority inversion & inheritance

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] priority inversion & inheritance
From: yodaiken_AT_fsmlabs.com
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 16:34:40 EEST


On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 04:01:29PM +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> >From: yodaiken_AT_fsmlabs.com
> >>
> >> I agree. That's why it is needed. And for realtime threads SCHED_FIFO/RR
> >
> >You lost me there. A RT scheduler is needed for RT tasks.
>
> You're selling RT Linux, right?

Of course. But RTLinux is a result of my technical bias, not a well
considered commercial plan.

> The standard Linux in our application can be considered as
> a real-time system because audio cards etc. are RT systems.
> Even in a true RT system our software applications may fail
> to execute. The difference is in where we are tuning the system.

Soft real-time: average case is X, standard deviation is Y
Hard real-time: worst case is X.

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