Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:04:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/15] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE v5
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On Fri, 25 May 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 23:42 +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Still missing/incomplete:
> >   - (c)group based bandwidth management, and maybe scheduling;
> 
> The b/w stuff for cgroups shouldn't be particularly hard, right? It
> shouldn't be more than ensuring the utilization sum of all children
> stays below the set value.
> 
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> >   - bandwidth inheritance (to replace deadline/priority inheritance);
> 
> Yes please, but this is somewhat longer term, I think the band-aids in
> place are sufficient to allow us to move fwd.
> 
> >   - access control for non-root users (and related security concerns to
> >     address). 
> 
> Right, so could you detail what all is needed to allow regular users to
> create dl tasks?
> 
> Aside from this, Ingo, Thomas, Steven do you agree in merging these
> patches as a suitable base to continue work from?

I haven't looked in detail, but I didn't spot horrible things
either. And yes, we should start with that set and improve from there.

Thanks,

	tglx
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