Re: Another SCHED_DEADLINE bug (with bisection and possible fix)

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat Jan 31 2015 - 04:57:19 EST


On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:35:02AM +0000, Juri Lelli wrote:
> So, we do the safe thing only in case of throttling.

No, even for the !throttle aka running tasks. We only use
dl_{runtime,deadline,period} for replenishment, until that time we
observe the old runtime/deadline set by the previous replenishment.

> I guess is more than
> ok for now, while we hopefully find some spare cycle to implement a
> complete solution :/.

Yeah, I bet the fun part is computing the 0-lag across the entire root
domain, per-cpu 0-lag isn't correct afaict.
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