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The real realtime preemption end game

The real realtime preemption end game

Posted Nov 19, 2023 5:40 UTC (Sun) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: The real realtime preemption end game by mirabilos
Parent article: The real realtime preemption end game

It works as long as your firmware behaves in a specific way, something no specification requires of it.

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The real realtime preemption end game

Posted Nov 19, 2023 18:22 UTC (Sun) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

Yes, of course. Which is why I said that “it works in practice”: it works on a sufficiently large array of machines that OpenBSD (and probably NetBSD before) chose to implement it so, and even if it doesn’t work on one machine it’s no big loss.


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