Comment by londons_explore
Comment by londons_explore a day ago
> the Linux kernel is fully preemptible,
So this means there are no critical sections or interrupts being disabled anywhere in kernel code when PREEMPT_RT is enabled?
Comment by londons_explore a day ago
> the Linux kernel is fully preemptible,
So this means there are no critical sections or interrupts being disabled anywhere in kernel code when PREEMPT_RT is enabled?
I would assume it means something a bit weaker: that all critical sections have a bounded length, being guaranteed to end after a given finite number of clock cycles.