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SubjectRe: [PATCH] proc: Add RLIMIT_RTTIME to /proc/<pid>/limits
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:44 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > Thanks for the text.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:12 +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > > > Peter,
> > > >
> > > > Could you please provide some text describing RLIMIT_RTTIMEfor the
> > > > getrlimit.2 man page.
> > >
> > > The rlimit sets a timeout in [us] for SCHED_RR and SCHED_FIFO tasks.
> > > This time is measured between sleeps, so a schedule in RR or a
> > > preemption in either is not a sleep - the task needs to be dequeued and
> > > enqueued for the timer to reset.
> >
> > Just to clarify: sleep here means a call to some blocking syscall
> > (e.g., nanosleep(), read(), select(), etc.), right? Is there anything
> > else that falls under the category of "sleep"? What about a call to
> > sched_yield() where the process explicitly lets go of the CPU?
>
> Yes, and yes, others would be blocking on futexes and the like.

Peter,

I've been testing this patch. Above you seemed to be saying that
doing a sched_yield() would be equivalent to a sleep, causing the rt
counter to be reset to zero. Howver, the results I'm seeing suggest
that a sched_yield() does not cause the counter to be reset to zero
(i.e., despite calling sched_yield() at frequent intervals, the
process still encounters the RLIM_RTTIME soft limit and gets SIGXCPU).
Can you comment?

Cheers,

Michael
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