Folks,
I just realized that in latest Linus' tree following sysctls are under
SCHED_DEBUG:
sched_rt_period
sched_rt_ratio
I do not believe that is correct. I know that we do not want to expose
scheduler knobs
in general but theses are not the heuristic kind of knobs. There is no way the scheduler
can magically figure out what the correct setting should be here.
Also shouldn't those new RT features that recently went be configurable and _disabled_
by default ? For example "RT watchdog" and "RT throttling" actually seem very questionable.
SCHED_FIFO is clearly defined as
"
A SCHED_FIFO process runs until either it is blocked by an I/O request, it is preempted
by a higher priority process, or it calls sched_yield(2).
"
Both the watchdog and the throttling are clearly braking that rule. I think it's good to have
those features but not enabled by default and certainly not with sysctls that disable them
hidden under debugging.
How about this:
- We introduce Kconfig options for them ?
- Expose all rt sysctls outside of #ifdef DEBUG
I can kook up some patches if that sounds ok.
----
btw I can see "watchdog" being very useful to catch hard-RT tasks that exceed
the deadline.
But's it gotta be per thread. Single setting per user is not enough. Unless a use has a single
RT task.
Max
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