Shielded Processors - Guaranteeing Sub-millisecond Response in Standard Linux

Very interesting article talking about "Shielded CPUs" in Linux. Essentially it describes how to dedicate a CPU to a process, so that the only thing running on that CPU is the task you want to run and the interrupts related to that task. This creates an almost real-time capability on commodity Linux and I think can have big implications in the low latency/market data arena.

Read the article here