AMD and Intel recently started changing how the x86 chip architecture will handle exceptions. Linus Torvalds, in turn, gave his take on their new approach for forthcoming generations of CPUs. Torvalds ...

There have been a considerable number of papers describing a number of different aspects of and approaches to realtime, a few of which were listed in the RESOURCES section of my "realtime patch ...

The hardware devices connected to your computer use interrupt requests to obtain permission from the microprocessor to perform specific actions. If a device can't communicate with the processor ...

The software-interrupt mechanism is one of the oldest parts in the kernel; arguably, the basic design behind it predates Linux itself. Software interrupts can get in the way of other work so, for ...