Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:08:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR linux scheduler policy ... |
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > > > I finally found a couple of hours for this and I also found a machine were > > I can run 2.5, since luck abandoned myself about this. The small page > > describe the obvious and contain the trivial patch and the latecy test app : > > > > http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/softrr.html > > What happens if evil user forks 60 processes, marks them all > SCHED_SOFTRR, and tries to starve everyone else?
Oh, no doubt you can do it. The SOFTRR thing can be fixed for this, pretty easily. The problem, like Alan is saying, is that with the current scheduler you do not need SOFTRR to starve other tasks. This is why I said that all the issues that have been grought up in the last few months should be discussed before going in 2.6. So that we can either say that are corner cases that we can ive ith, or we fix them. I didn't follow the scheduler after the first merge but it seems that a couple of issues should be addressed before 2.6.
- Davide
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