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
