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Posted Sep 20, 2024 11:19 UTC (Fri) by ryanduve (subscriber, #127786)
Parent article: The realtime preemption pull request

Is there an LWN story on what "PREEMPT_RT support" is and why its so important? Sounds like a huge milestone but the term is new to me.

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Posted Sep 20, 2024 11:24 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

There is lots of background material available for those who would like to catch up on 20 years of history. (Sorry, don't have time for a more elaborate answer at the moment).

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Posted Sep 20, 2024 11:27 UTC (Fri) by ryanduve (subscriber, #127786) [Link] (1 responses)

No need, that list is probably exactly what I was looking for! If you think this milestone deserves a summary article I would be interested to read that, too.

Thanks for the quick response.

RT history resources

Posted Oct 2, 2024 14:41 UTC (Wed) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901) [Link]

Steve Rostedt and Sebastien Siewior gave some good talks at kernel recipes a few weeks ago, with lots of good material on the history and features of PREEMPT_RT. See https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2024/schedule/making-the-kernel-suck-less/ and https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2024/schedule/preempt_rt-over-the-years/