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A comparison Of Hard Real-Time Linux Alternatives

Posted by timothy on from the close-to-stock dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This study compares the real-time capabilities of various Linux kernels. It was part of a project to upgrade the control software in water-wave generators at research institutions around the world. The results of the study were used by Akamina for the selection of a new RTOS for the control system upgrade of Canada's largest hydraulics and coastal engineering laboratory, the National Research Council Canadian Hydraulics Centre in Ottawa."

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  1. A full blown RTOS can be overkill by geirt · · Score: 4, Informative

    A full blown RTOS is overkill for many RT applications.

    Many RT tasks (like the one used in this article) can be described as:

    Wait for IRQ. Do something *NOW*. Wait for IRQ

    These tasks can be supported by the rtirq-patch. rt-irq is a very small patch that allows just that (and nothing more). It would be nice to add rtirq to the comparison.

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