Re: [rtl] Threads

[Maryam Moghaddas <maryamm@ece.ubc.ca>]

>
> The Linux threads package is completely separate to RTLinux, and
> operates on standard Linux systems with or without RTLinux.
> If you use the Linux pthreads package then the threads are created as
> user space processes which can access each others memory.

How about the Linux kernel-threads? Would they beahve the same way?

>
>
> So I guess it depends on your application, if it requires guaranteed
> deadlines and/or latencies then it is unlikely that Linux threads will
> meet the specifications and one of the RT variants should be used, but
> if your application can withstand missing the occasional deadline, or
> possibly have exclusive use of the system, then Linux threads may well
> be acceptable.
>

My application is a realtime in-memory database. It does not deal with disks. And it's
networking is through the ethernet device driver written for RTLinux OS...

Thanx so much for your complete answers/guidelines...
maryam

>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve

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