Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: RT_RUNTIME_GREED sched feature

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Nov 08 2016 - 18:42:47 EST


On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 21:06:50 +0100
> Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The throttling allowed the kworker to run, but once the kworker went to
> > sleep, the RT tasks started to work again. In the previous behavior,
> > the system would either go idle, or the kworker would starve because
> > the runtime become infinity for RR tasks.
>
> I'm confused? Are you saying that RR tasks don't get throttled in the
> current code? That sounds like a bug to me.

Good. Thats what I wanted to hear after all these justifications that the
system is just behaving as designed.