Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Use EDF to throttle RT task groups

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

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:08 +0200, Fabio Checconi wrote:
> 
> > I might have to re-read that mim-concurrency G-EDF paper again, but I
> > failed to spot the bin-packing issue.
> > 

> In the paper you cited, the Conclusion section lists the support for
> dynamic systems and for joining/leaving of tasks as a future work; I
> think that handling (de-)fragmentation and allocation of cpu bandwidth
> when tasks and groups are created/destroyed might be quite complex from
> within the kernel.

Hmm, right, so I was thinking that we could simply create int(w_i) full
cpu and 1 frac(w_i) server tasks and let the single level G-EDF sort it
out.

It looks to me that by only scheduling the leafs of the hierarchy you
side-step a lot of issues, but then maybe it generates other issues :-)

> I'd prefer to have the mechanims enforcing the bandwidth allocation
> inside the kernel, and, eventually, an interface allowing the userspace
> to specify nontrivial allocation schemes, like the one in the paper.

Right.