Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 18/22] sched: add reclaiming logic to -deadline
 tasks
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Raistlin <raistlin@linux.it>
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On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 08:42 +0200, Raistlin wrote:
> The bandwidth enforcing mechanism implemented inside the
> SCHED_DEADLINE policy ensures that overrunning tasks are slowed
> down without interfering with well behaving ones.
> This, however, comes at the price of limiting the capability of
> a task to exploit more bandwidth than it is asigned.
> 
> The current implementation always stops a task that is trying
> to use more than its runtime (every deadline). Something else that
> could be done is to let it continue running, but with a "decreased
> priority". This way, we can exploit full CPU bandwidth and still
> avoid interferences.
> 
> In order of "decreasing the priority" of a deadline task, we can:
>  - let it stay SCHED_DEADLINE and postpone its deadline. This way it
>    will always be scheduled before -rt and -other tasks but it
>    won't affect other -deadline tasks;
>  - put it in SCHED_FIFO with some priority. This way it will always
>    be scheduled before -other tasks but it won't affect -deadline
>    tasks, nor other -rt tasks with higher priority;
>  - put it in SCHED_OTHER.
> 
> Notice also that this can be done on a per-task basis, e.g., each
> task can specify what kind of reclaiming mechanism it wants to use
> by means of the sched_flags field of sched_param_ex.
> 
> Therefore, this patch:
>  - adds the flags for specyfing DEADLINE, RT or OTHER reclaiming
>    behaviour;
>  - adds the logic that changes the scheduling class of a task when
>    it overruns, according to the requested policy.

The first two definitely should require SYS_CAP_ADMIN because it allows
silly while(1) loops again.. but can we postpone this fancy feature as
well? 

I'd much rather have the stochastic thing implemented that allows
limited temporal overrun.
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