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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 31, 2012 19:32 UTC (Wed) by XTF (guest, #83255)
In reply to: Why not just "cheat" and devote a whole core to the RT process? by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: Software interrupts and realtime

> On a multicore box, wouldn't it be easier just to dedicate a whole CPU core, 100% of the time to a particular process?

Doesn't this (kinda) happen automatically, if priorities are set right?


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