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Daniel Walker wrote:
> I went to see Andrew Morton speak at Xerox PARC and he indicated that
> some of the RT patch was a little crazy . Specifically interrupts in
> threads (Correct me if I'm wrong Andrew). It seems a lot of the
> maintainers haven't really warmed up to it. 

Understandably at first encounter it may seem rather
unconventional.  However scheduled interrupt execution
has existed in Solaris for years.

What are the objections?

-john


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