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Turning Linux into a Realtime Kernel

von Thomas Gleixner (linutronix)

Donnerstag, 31.05.2007, Forum Messehalle, 10:00-11:00 Uhr

Many people thought that transforming a General Purpose Operating System into a Realtime Operating System would be impossible. A small group of core kernel developers, led by Ingo Molnar, have proven that this can be done nevertheless.

The realtime preemption patch has matured and found its way into real world products already, so it's time to look at the internals. The realtime preemption patch core changes include priority inheritance support, high resolution timers, threaded interrupt handlers, and sleeping spinlocks.

Aside the technical insight into the core changes, the talk provides information about the goal and motivation of the realtime preemption project and examples of real world use cases.

Über den Autor Thomas Gleixner:

Thomas Gleixner has worked on industrial embedded devices for over 20 years. During the last 8 years he has focused on Linux for industrial applications. He has contributed to Linux in several ways. He is the main author of the hrtimer subsystem and the high resolution timer implementation on top of hrtimers and a major contributor to Ingo Molnars realtime preemption patch.
He is the founder of linutronix a german linux service provider with a clear focus on embedded and industrial usage of Linux.