Subject: Re: Real time scheduling
To: HARAWAT.IN.ORACLE.COM <HARAWAT.IN.ORACLE.COM.ofcmail@in.oracle.com>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/27/1997 21:38:31
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, HARAWAT.IN.ORACLE.COM wrote:

> 	Has anyone tried to implement Real time scheduling ( of SVr4 ) into 
> NetBsd. 

In order for this to be possible, the kernel would have to be
pre-emptable, which it currently isn't.  That's a big task, because much
of the code uses the non-premptiveness as a safety net.  (I'm guilty of it
myself =)

-J