What do they mean by "Realtime"?

Posted Sep 29, 2009 18:56 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: What do they mean by "Realtime"? by clameter
Parent article: The realtime preemption mini-summit

by realtime they don't mean responding in the minimum time

they are looking for a response in a _predictable_max_ time

how short that predictable time is determines how suitable it is for a particular application, but the key thing is to make it predictable.

right now linux is not predictable, that is what they are working on fixing.