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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-06-15 14:02:23 +0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-06-15 14:02:23 +0400 |
commit | 9cbc1cb8cd46ce1f7645b9de249b2ce8460129bb (patch) | |
tree | 8d104ec2a459346b99413b0b77421ca7b9936c1a /Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt | |
parent | ca44d6e60f9de26281fda203f58b570e1748c015 (diff) | |
parent | 45e3e1935e2857c54783291107d33323b3ef33c8 (diff) | |
download | linux-9cbc1cb8cd46ce1f7645b9de249b2ce8460129bb.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
net/core/drop_monitor.c
net/core/net-traces.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt index 5ba4d3fc625a..1df7f9cdab05 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CONTENTS ======== +0. WARNING 1. Overview 1.1 The problem 1.2 The solution @@ -14,6 +15,23 @@ CONTENTS 3. Future plans +0. WARNING +========== + + Fiddling with these settings can result in an unstable system, the knobs are + root only and assumes root knows what he is doing. + +Most notable: + + * very small values in sched_rt_period_us can result in an unstable + system when the period is smaller than either the available hrtimer + resolution, or the time it takes to handle the budget refresh itself. + + * very small values in sched_rt_runtime_us can result in an unstable + system when the runtime is so small the system has difficulty making + forward progress (NOTE: the migration thread and kstopmachine both + are real-time processes). + 1. Overview =========== @@ -169,7 +187,7 @@ get their allocated time. Implementing SCHED_EDF might take a while to complete. Priority Inheritance is the biggest challenge as the current linux PI infrastructure is geared towards -the limited static priority levels 0-139. With deadline scheduling you need to +the limited static priority levels 0-99. With deadline scheduling you need to do deadline inheritance (since priority is inversely proportional to the deadline delta (deadline - now). |