Jon Masters has been involved with Linux for more than 22 years.
Last month was the 30th anniversary of the original announcement of Linux. This month it’s time for another anniversary in the form of 17 years since the first “PREEMPT_ RT” (Real Time) kernel patch was posted upstream by Ingo Molnar. It might not be all that much longer until – finally – all of the pieces needed to run a Linux kernel with bounded deterministic performance for latency sensitive workloads are finally in upstream kernels.