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D. SUMMARY

At this point, it does not appear that any one approach can be all things to all realtime applications. It is therefore too early to pick a winner. Advocates of a given approach are therefore advised to concentrate their energy on implementations of their favorite approach, rather than engaging in flamewars with advocates of other… (more…)

C. LINUX REALTIME APPROACHES

The following general approaches to Linux realtime have been proposed, along with many variations on each of these themes:

1. non-CONFIG_PREEMPT
2. CONFIG_PREEMPT
3. CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
4. Nested OS
5. (more…)

B. DESIRABLE PROPERTIES

As usual, there are conflicting desires, at least they conflict given the current state of the art. These desires fall into the following categories:

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