Re: Inside an IBM z17

On Mon, 5 May 2025 08:30:03 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

In article <vv9fdc$3mhk4$1@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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Meanwhile, Linux recently mainlined the PREEMPT_RT patches, where the
definition of real time is being able to provide sub-millisecond
response to playing or recording sound samples for pro audio.

 
That's still not hard realtime at all ...

Tell that to the audio engineers in particular. They are kind of sensitive
to the slightest bit of jitter in the timing of things.

But what they mean by "RT" isn't what hard realtime people mean by "RT"
which has nothing to do with what the transaction processing guys meant
as "RT."  Do not get hung up on words, especially when people use the
same words for rather different concepts.

Particularly when the transaction processing folks are at the bottom of
that particular league table ...