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

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:12:06AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:52 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 15:32 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > > 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). 
> > 
> > No, cgroups are well outside of POSIX ;-) as is SMP in fact.
> 
> That's because the POSIX standards committee is still struggling to come
> up with standardized SMP calls to handle NR_CPUS = 0

;-) ;-) ;-)

> Isn't Paul on that committee? ;-)

I have met with them occasionally, but have spent most of my time on
the C/C++ committees.  I didn't try sounding them out on NR_CPUS=0,
partly because they were choking pretty hard on NR_CPUS=4096.

At least part of the problem is that every OS out there has different
SMP feature, so the only way it would be possible to get this sort of
thing through the committee would be to invent something that was
roughly equally incompatible with everyone.

However, there are some SMP features standardized by various random
committees and aggregated by The Open Group, including:

o	The pthread_mutex_lock() API
o	pthread_getspecific() and pthread_setspecific()
o	pthread_getconcurrency() and pthread_setconcurrency()

But yes, even the aggregated standard is quite limiting.

							Thanx, Paul