Hi Robert, thanks for the reply. > > My question is now: What kind of IPC is preferred here? > > The only IPC I see is a local socket communication, however > > this looks like a huge overhead for triggering... > > > > Both, threads A and B are real time threads, thus any IPC in use > > should be supported by the RT_PREEMPT patch. > You could try pipe() and take a look at epoll(). My testing shows it's > reasonably efficient and the epoll() API is quite flexible. > > I've thought about using eventfd() and epoll() for exactly the purpose you > mention but haven't had time to try it. eventfd() looks very interesting. I think I will do a test using it. Mathias -- Mathias Koehrer mathias_koehrer@xxxxxxxx Traumziele - von Beschreibung bis Buchung jetzt kompakt auf den Reise-Seiten von Arcor.de! http://www.arcor.de/rd/footer.reise -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
