Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261219AbVFAA25 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 20:28:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261220AbVFAA25 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 20:28:57 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:56072 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261219AbVFAA24 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 20:28:56 -0400 Message-ID: <429D0392.1040202@opersys.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:38:42 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bill Huey (hui)" CC: Esben Nielsen , Nick Piggin , kus Kusche Klaus , James Bruce , Andi Kleen , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Ingo Molnar , dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance References: <429B70F2.20602@opersys.com> <20050531220151.GA1804@nietzsche.lynx.com> In-Reply-To: <20050531220151.GA1804@nietzsche.lynx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 21 Bill Huey (hui) wrote: > This is really interesting code. It's really not unlike what preempt RT > is already doing with the atomic locking (replacement). From the looks > of it conversion of an ethernet driver to be RT capable is shockingly > trivial. It is. In some cases you need to provide alternate functions, but in most not ... However, note that this is for UDP. There is no such thing as deterministic TCP. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/