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RTKER's responsiveness to interrupts

Figure 3.1: RTKER's vs Linux's response to interrupts
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Two stage interrupt handling makes the RTKER responsive to the interrupts. Consider the two cases of interrupt handling as in Linux & in RTKER. To an interrupt ocuuring at $t0$ RTKER's response is at time $t1$ which is less than the Linux's response time at time $t2$ (see fig 3.1).


Soumyadeb Mitra 2002-08-07