A friend of mine is having a problem with a high-data-rate
application which appears to involve developing some new protocols.
He's preparing a letter with the details. He tells me the Linux
scheduler uses a 100-Hz clock, and that isn't fast enough for him.
By the time the scheduler gets around to the next tick and reconsiders
whether to execute his process, his 15-meg rotating buffer has overflowed.
He believes that the proper fix would be for the Linux timer code to be
rewritten to operate at higher resolution. He is facing the prospect
of switching to another OS.
As I said, he's preparing a letter with the details. Is this an appropriate
forum to present it? Or should I send it elsewhere (if so, where?).
-- hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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