Re: Can't sleep less than 20 ms

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:26:45 +0300


On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 10:56:04PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
....
> For real RT or low-latency work, you will need to work
> on an unloaded computer anyway.

Indeed, first rule of realtime signal processing software
writing is: If you can't finish the computation before
next sample arrives, you are not real-time.

Throwing in additional tasks causing their own IRQ mask-out
periods, and whatnot, just makes the scheduling delays worse.

Using e.g. RT-Linux can perhaps alleviate the non-rt scheduler's
occasionally long latencies.

> Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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