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The 2012 realtime minisummit

The 2012 realtime minisummit

Posted Oct 25, 2012 22:55 UTC (Thu) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624)
In reply to: The 2012 realtime minisummit by jeff_marshall
Parent article: The 2012 realtime minisummit

The correct value is hundreds of microseconds, but it is entirely possible that I said “milliseconds” by mistake. It would not be the first time.


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The 2012 realtime minisummit

Posted Oct 25, 2012 23:05 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> it is entirely possible that I said “milliseconds” by mistake

it's also entirely possible that I mis-heard you ... in any case, i struck milliseconds and added microseconds ...

thanks,

jake

The 2012 realtime minisummit

Posted Oct 26, 2012 14:22 UTC (Fri) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624) [Link]

Either way, thank you!

Of course, if FPGAs and and GPGPUs were to have large private memories that needed to be saved and restored on context switch, then we could see truly huge context-switch times. ;-)

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