Re: [tip:core/futexes] futex: use current->time_slack_ns for rt tasks too

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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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Subject: sched: adjust timer_slack_ns on scheduler policy change
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Mar 12 15:01:02 CET 2009

Ensure RT tasks have 0 timer slack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
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 kernel/sched.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5511,10 +5511,12 @@ __setscheduler(struct rq *rq, struct tas
 	case SCHED_NORMAL:
 	case SCHED_BATCH:
 	case SCHED_IDLE:
+		p->timer_slack_ns = p->default_timer_slack_ns;
 		p->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
 		break;
 	case SCHED_FIFO:
 	case SCHED_RR:
+		p->timer_slack_ns = 0;
 		p->sched_class = &rt_sched_class;
 		break;
 	}


Looking at the default_timer_slack_ns stuff, do we want something like
the below?

the original idea was that you had a default slack that you got from exec time,
and then something you could just tweak around yourself independently....

this would throw that out of the window.
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