On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
2. When your
lock-free malloc needs more memory from the OS it will
still take a system call to do it. I believe I have heard it said in
the past that system calls of any sort are unacceptable in RT code, but
isn't this a bit a of a hard-line position?
Is msgrcv() unacceptable as well, then ?
If you want to be careful, then yes. You can ask msgrcv to not block, but
I'd personally double check the kernel code. :)
Tim