Re: [PATCH] sched: rt group scheduling, compare child's limitagainst parent's

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 12:24:12 EST


On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 21:49 +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> Hi Ingo, Peter,
>
> I've not been able to follow the reasoning behind checking the sum of
> the children's runtime not exceeding the parent's runtime as opposed to
> the child's runtime not exceeding that of the parent.
>
> From what I understand, the limits only guarantee that the group cannot
> exceed a certain limit and not guarantee a group gets to run. If my
> understanding is corrct, maybe the following patch is needed?

NAK, rt needs that as it guarantees a min too.

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