Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: prioritize non-migratable tasks overmigratableones

[Gregory Haskins]

>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at  8:58 AM, in message
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0804230854210.23815@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Rostedt
<rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 


> 
> I'm not giving an Ack on this patch (not yet). My main concern here is
> that this is performing on a verge of policy change. As you stated, this
> is a known issue. One that can be avoided by giving RT tasks different
> priorities.  It is known that two tasks with the same priority fighting
> for the same CPUS (even if one is migratable and one is not) has
> non-deterministic behaviour.
> 
> This patch needs a bit of running through the grind to see what effects it
> has before going in.

Perfectly reasonable stance, Steve.  Thanks for the review!

-Greg

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