Real-time Systems Enhancements

Feature Description
High-Resolution Timers The high-resolution timers (HRTs) bypass the traditional 10ms clock interface to expose the granularity of the physical clock interrupt from the hardware. Thus the HRT interface allows a real-time process to take control of one processor (of a multiprocessor system) and operate to any required degree of precision in timing events.
User-Level Priority Inheritance The real-time threads feature implements the POSIX interfaces (previously only dummied in) that let the high-priority thread "lend" its priority to the low-priority thread until it releases the lock.

Feature Description

High-Resolution Timers

The high-resolution timers (HRTs) bypass the traditional 10ms clock interface to expose the granularity of the physical clock interrupt from the hardware. Thus the HRT interface allows a real-time process to take control of one processor (of a multiprocessor system) and operate to any required degree of precision in timing events.

User-Level Priority Inheritance

The real-time threads feature implements the POSIX interfaces (previously only dummied in) that let the high-priority thread "lend" its priority to the low-priority thread until it releases the lock.

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