> From: Erik Andersen <andersee@et.byu.edu>
>
> I was wondering what the current status of hard real time is under
> Linux. What has been implemented already? What things have not yet
As I understand, it will be integrated into 2.1.XX kernel after cleaning up
SMP stuff. For now, there is a separate patch and utils for 2.0.27
( http://luz.cs.nmt.edu/~rtlinux/ ).
But there is also:
Title: rt - run program on realtime priority
Version: 1.0
Entered-date: 12 Jan 1997
Description: rt starts any program on realtime priority, like nice
does with lower priority. Lets you choose scheduler
class (SCHED_RR vs SCHED_FIFO policy) and priority.
Keywords: linux, real time, scheduler
Author: Boris Tobotras <boris@xtalk.msk.su>
Maintained-by: Boris Tobotras <boris@xtalk.msk.su>
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Admin
10 kb rt-1.0.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.macsimum.ru /pub/Linux/local
10 kb rt-1.0.tar.gz
Platform: Linux 1.3.87 and later
Copying-policy: GPL
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But it does something else. I do not know how well it really works.
-- Tomasz Motylewski