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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kthread: always create the kernel threads with normal priority
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:09:04 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

>
> > > This causes a practical problem. When a runaway real-time task is
> > > eating 100% CPU and we attempt to put the CPU offline, sometimes we
> > > block while waiting for the creation of the highest-priority
> > > "kstopmachine" thread.
>
> sched-devel.git has new mechanisms against runaway RT tasks. There's a
> new RLIMIT_RTTIME rlimit - if an RT task exceeds that rlimit then it is
> sent SIGXCPU.

Is that "total RT CPU time" or "elapsed time since last schedule()"?

If the former, it is not useful for this problem.

> there's also a new group scheduling extension that is driven via a
> sysctl:
>
> /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_ratio
>
> this way if a user has a runaway RT task, other users (and root) will
> still have some CPU time left. (in Peter's latest patchset that is
> replaced via rt_runtime_ns - but this is a detail)

Doesn't this make the RT task non-RT? Would need to understand more
details to tell.

> so instead of the never-ending arms race of kernel thread priorities
> against RT task priorities, we are going towards making RT tasks safer
> on a policy level.
>
> Ingo


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