A realtime developer's checklist

Posted Nov 17, 2020 15:46 UTC (Tue) by gus3 (guest, #61103)
In reply to: A realtime developer's checklist by Wol
Parent article: A realtime developer's checklist

> So you're quite happy for a nuclear power plant to blow up because an operator wanted to play a shoot-em-up game on the same computer?

If the operator wants to play a shoot-em-up while on duty, then the priority inversion is taking place within the operator, not the computer.

> mixed criticality would be lovely, but not at the expense of true real-time operation.

If the constraints of RT can be satisfied in two different domains, whether cores or hosts, it's still RT. Just because they have different scheduling requirements, doesn't make either of them "fake RT".