Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC for a new Scheduling policy/class in the Linux-kernel]

[Ted Baker <baker@cs.fsu.edu>]

Sorry for the complaint about the lklm.org reference.
Somehow, the "2/28/107" portion of the URL got cut off when
I pasted it into my browser. :-}

However, the rest of my comments still apply.

--Ted

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:41:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> 
> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 07:56 -0400, Ted Baker wrote:
> > I have not seen any more e-mail on this.  How is it going?  Is there any
> > chance of rolling in some corrections for the SCHED_SPORADIC treatment?  In
> > particular, could we have a DO_NOT_RUN priority, that is guaranteed to
> > prevent a task from running at all?
> 
> Without having fully read the referenced paper, we're currently looking
> to support the sporadic task model through SCHED_DEADLINE (by our SSSUP
> friends):
> 
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/28/107
> 
> This work aims to implement a full sporadic task scheduler [initially
> (g)EDF], SCHED_SPORADIC would have been a better name, but since POSIX
> stole that from us we took SCHED_DEADLINE to indicate its a deadline
> scheduler.
> 
> Along with this work comes the full Deadline-inheritance (which should
> be but a small change from our current Priority-inheritance code), and
> also Bandwidth-inheritance (more work). Esp. the latter would also be
> required for your proposed SCHED_SPORADIC since it does aim to be a
> 'strict' bandwidth enforcing scheduler.
> 
> [Does the proposed 'fixed' SCHED_SPORADIC deal with admission control?]
> 
> But as it stands, this work would provide much more complete sporadic
> task support than the fixed SCHED_SPORADIC would.
> 
> 
> 
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