Re: SCHED_DEADLINE as user

[Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>]

On 18/08/18 15:26, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> >> audio applications typically use SCHED_FIFO. however they are
> >> rate-monotonic by design, so i wanted to evaluate how SCHED_DEADLINE
> >> behaves here.
> > 
> > Right. Exactly what I started to think about lately as well.
> > 
> >>
> >>> Asking because we might want to have a look at how to relax the current
> >>> privileges requirement.
> >>
> >> please :)
> > 
> > Anything to try attracting new users. :-P
> > 
> > More seriously, could you please describe in a bit more details your
> > specific use case? Based on JACK I guess? Is it the application you are
> > interested into public available somewhere?
> 
> it could be based on JACK or natively on ALSA. furthermore the fun part
> starts when trying to distribute work to multiple threads: during the
> time slice of one audio callback (could be as low as 1.3ms), we need to
> wake helper threads and (busy?)wait to collect all the results. (while
> one of the applications is open source, it's not entirely
> straight-forward to use)
> 
> for me it's more an investigation if SCHED_DEADLINE is actually feasible
> in real-world audio application these days. tommaso used to have a
> research prototype [1], built directly into JACK. however currently i'd
> be more interested in using it in ALSA. but yeah, it's more an
> investigation as SCHED_FIFO does a decent job for my use case ...

I (almost) see. Thanks for the details.

> [1] http://retis.sssup.it/~tommaso/publications/LAC-2011.pdf

So, this was IIRC using AQuoSA hierarchical RT on EDF scheduler
implementation; which it was handy to easy the task of assigning CBS
server parameters to JACK clients (graph).

In your case - assuming you could already use DEADLINE for !root - do
you think you would need to use the same interface for the multiple
threads you are distributing work among? Or would you be fine with
assigning runtime/deadline for each one of those?

BTW, cc-ing Tommaso and Luca. Discussion started from
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg19296.html