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SubjectRe: [RFC 3/5] sched: Add CPU rate hard caps
Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Friday 26 May 2006 14:20, Peter Williams wrote:
>> This patch implements hard CPU rate caps per task as a proportion of a
>> single CPU's capacity expressed in parts per thousand.
>
> A hard cap of 1/1000 could lead to interesting starvation scenarios where a
> mutex or semaphore was held by a task that hardly ever got cpu. Same goes to
> a lesser extent to a 0 soft cap.
>
> Here is how I handle idleprio tasks in current -ck:
>
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/pre-releases/2.6.17-rc5/2.6.17-rc5-ck1/patches/track_mutexes-1.patch
> tags tasks that are holding a mutex
>
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/pre-releases/2.6.17-rc5/2.6.17-rc5-ck1/patches/sched-idleprio-1.7.patch
> is the idleprio policy for staircase.
>
> What it does is runs idleprio tasks as normal tasks when they hold a mutex or
> are waking up after calling down() (ie holding a semaphore).

I wasn't aware that you could detect those conditions. They could be
very useful.

> These two in
> combination have shown resistance to any priority inversion problems in
> widespread testing. An attempt was made to track semaphores held via a
> down_interruptible() but unfortunately the lack of strict rules about who
> could release the semaphore meant accounting was impossible of this scenario.
> In practice, though there were no test cases that showed it to be an issue,
> and the recent conversion en-masse of semaphores to mutexes in the kernel
> means it has pretty much covered most possibilities.
>

Thanks,
Peter
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Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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