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From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Dec 05 2017 - 12:10:17 EST


We haven't yet figured out what to do with RT threads on cgroup2.
Document the limitation.

v2: Included the warning about system management software behavior as
suggested by Michael.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index 779211f..c5e3c21 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -898,6 +898,13 @@ controller implements weight and absolute bandwidth limit models for
normal scheduling policy and absolute bandwidth allocation model for
realtime scheduling policy.

+WARNING: cgroup2 doesn't yet support control of realtime processes and
+the cpu controller can only be enabled when all RT processes are in
+the root cgroup. Be aware that that system management software may
+already have placed RT processes into nonroot cgroups during the
+system boot process, and these processes may need to be moved to the
+root cgroup before the cpu controller can be enabled.
+

CPU Interface Files
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2.9.5