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Internals of the RT Patch
Overview Over the past few years, Ingo Molnar and others have worked diligently to turn the Linux kernel into a viable Real-Time platform. This work is kept in a patch that is held on Ingo's page of the Red Hat web site and is referred to in this paper as the RT patch. As the RT patch is reaching maturity, and slowly slipping into the upstream kernel, this paper takes the user into the depths of the RT patch and explains exactly what it is going on. It explains Priority Inheritance, the conversion of Interrupt Service Routines into threads, and transforming spin_locks into mutexes and why this all matters.
| Publisher | Red Hat | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | June 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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