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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] SCHED_DEADLINE server infrastructure
Hi Pavel,

On 09/09/20 00:22, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > This is RFC v2 of Peter's SCHED_DEADLINE server infrastructure
> > implementation [1].
> >
> > SCHED_DEADLINE servers can help fixing starvation issues of low priority tasks (e.g.,
> > SCHED_OTHER) when higher priority tasks monopolize CPU cycles. Today we have RT
> > Throttling; DEADLINE servers should be able to replace and improve that.
>
> It would be worth noting what "server" is in this context.

It comes from Constant Bandwidth Server (CBS), that SCHED_DEADLINE is
implementing [1].

>
> It is not white box with CPU inside, it is not even an userland process, afaict.
>
> Subject is quite confusing.

Best,
Juri

1 - https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.rst#L42

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