On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 12:22:21 -0600 Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm still reviewing the patch, but I have to wonder why bother with making it a scheduler feature? > > The SCHED_FIFO definition allows a fifo thread to starve others > because a fifo task will run until it yields. Throttling was added as > a safety valve to allow starved SCHED_OTHER tasks to get some cpu > time. Adding this unconditionally gets us a safety valve for > throttling a badly written fifo task, but allows the fifo task to > continue to consume cpu cycles if it's not starving anyone. > > Or am I missing something that's blazingly obvious? Or I say make it the default. If people want the old behavior, they can modify SCHED_FEATURES to do so. -- Steve -- 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
