Re: RT patch acceptance

From: Karim Yaghmour
Date: Tue May 31 2005 - 19:30:12 EST



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
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