Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: SCHED_FIFO watchdog timer

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

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On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 15:26 +0200, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
> On 14/10/2007, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > The below patch is an idea proposed by tglx and depends on sched-devel +
> > the hrtick patch previously posted.
> >
> > The current watchdog action is to demote the task to SCHED_NORMAL,
> > however it might be wanted to deliver a signal instead (or have more per
> > task configuration state). Which is why I added Lennart to the CC list
> > as I gathered he would like something like this for PulseAudio.
> >
> > ---
> > Subject: sched: SCHED_FIFO watchdog timer
> 
> Why only SHCED_FIFO and not SCHED_RR?
> Their (mis)behavior is similar wrt SCHED_NORMAL tasks.

Because SCHED_FIFO is easier, _RR is for later. It was mostly an RFC to
request behavioural wishes from the users.

> 
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HRT_TICK
> > +static int fifo_watchdog(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int queued)
> > +{
> > +       if (likely(!queued || p->policy != SCHED_FIFO))
> > +               return 0;
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * task has been naughty, turn into SCHED_NORMAL
> > +        */
> > +       printk(KERN_INFO "SCHED_FIFO task %s/%d exceeded his runtime quota,"
> > +                       " demoting to regular task\n", p->comm, task_pid_nr(p));
> > +       deactivate_task(rq, p, 0);
> > +       __setscheduler(rq, p, SCHED_NORMAL, 0);
> > +       activate_task(rq, p, 0);
> > +       resched_task(p);
> 
> I guess, put_prev_task() / set_curr_task() should be called (for the
> case of task_running(p)) to make it group-scheduler-friendly (as it's
> done e.g. in sched_setscheduler()).
> 
> (normilize_task() should probably do the same)

Right, that is where I copied from, I'll pull the functionality into a
single function and make this and the sysrq stuff use it.

Thanks!

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