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Realtime Papers

1. July 2008 'Real Time' vs. 'Real Fast': How to Choose? at Ottawa Linux Symposium (Presentation and updated version for MVision 2008).
2. May 2008 Responsive systems: An introduction in IBM Systems Journal, with R. F. Berry and F. N. Parr.
3. May 2008 The read-copy-update mechanism for supporting real-time applications on shared-memory multiprocessor systems with Linux in IBM Systems Journal, with Dinakar Guniguntala, Josh Triplett, and Jon Walpole.
4. October 2007 keynote and "deep dive" into the -rt patchset at MontaVista's MVision conference.
5. January 2007 SMP and Embedded Realtime Myths in (Linux Journal). Introduces enterprise realtime.
6. February 2006 Linux Realtime Response: Challenges in Making Linux Ready for Real Time Computing presented at the First Workshop on Real Time, Interactive and Digital Media Supercomputing (RIDMS-1), part of the 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.
7. October 2005 Linux Realtime Response: The CONFIG_PREEMPT Patch Set presented as a seminar to the Department of Computer Science at Oregon State University.
8. August 2005 Shrinking Slices: Looking at Real Time for Linux, PowerPC, and Cell interview by McLaren Harris.
9. July 2005 Realtime and Linux with Ingo Molnar. Presentation on a number of ways of getting realtime features into Linux given at the 2005 Linux Kernel Summit.

Issues with Hard Realtime Response

1. "Show me a hard realtime system, and I will show you a hammer that will cause it to miss its scheduling deadlines."
2. "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer."