Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:25:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> Subject: Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: > > OK, now we are getting somewhere. So I have a kernel level source, user > level processing, and a kernel level sink, right? And the problem is that > we can have long delays which mess that up. Here is how you handle that > with RTLinux: Well, I personally would rather see that nobody ever needed RTlinux at all. I think hard realtime is a waste of time, myself, and only to be used for the case where the CPU speed is not overwhelmingly fast enough (and these days, for most problems the CPU _is_ so overwhelmingly "fast enough" that hard realtime should be a non-issue). I definitely agree with low-latency requirements even in a standard Linux. I just disagree violently with doing them with horrible cludges instead of working on doing it right. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/