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Why not just "cheat" and devote a whole core to the RT process?

Why not just "cheat" and devote a whole core to the RT process?

Posted Oct 29, 2012 18:20 UTC (Mon) by cbf123 (guest, #74020)
In reply to: Why not just "cheat" and devote a whole core to the RT process? by dlang
Parent article: Software interrupts and realtime

Intel's networking fastpath basically just throws power consumption out the window and dedicates entire cpu cores to spinning on the network devices.

100% cpu usage, constantly, but you get really low-latency networking!

A somewhat less intrusive method is to direct only the interrupts you care about to the "isolated" cpu while leaving all the rest to be handled as normal.


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