Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: fix SCHED_RR across cgroups

[Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>]

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On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 13:37 -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
> > I would say it is. That's what you get because of putting task1 and
> > cgroup at the same level in the "hierarchy". I'm curious, what kind of
> > behaviour were you expecting?
> 
> That behavior matches exactly with scheduling of normal tasks and
> cgroups with default cpu.shares, but doesn't match too well with what
> I can see of the posix SCHED_RR description, which suggests all the
> SCHED_RR threads go into a single queue.  I was just curious if the
> behavior my patch restored was correct, since it can't be adjusted by
> tweaking any parameters like cpu.shares.
> 
Again, I really think it is the intended behaviour, and yes, real-time
group scheduling "breaks" the POSIX specification of the SCHED_{FIFO,RR}
policies intentionally (and _proudly_, as Peter would say it, am I
wrong? :-P).

Dario

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