Threaded interrupts and preemption

[manoj.iyer at canonical.com]

afaik, applications will not see much difference if they run on realtime 
or not, probably we will see some difference in responsiveness, but as per 
the presentation at ELC, user space applications with locking bugs will be 
more pronounced due to more fine grain scheduling, especially on SMP.


Cheers
--- manjo

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Chase Douglas wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:36 PM,  <manoj.iyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>> your applications need to be coded to take adv of realtime kernel.
>> i dont think we have any apps that can take adv of RT atm.
>
> If you really want an RT system then yes, you need make sure the app
> is coded right too. What I'm interested in is just increasing
> responsiveness, but we don't need to worry about hard or soft RT
> limits. So I think we can play with the kernel and decrease latency
> without needing to touch user space apps.
>
> -- Chase
>