Re: [patch] Re: autogroup: sched_setscheduler() fails

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

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:29 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> Right, autogroup should be excluding CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED, since it
> doesn't currently support it.
> 
> sched: SCHED_AUTOGROUP selection excludes RT_GROUP_SCHED
> 
> Autogroup does not support realtime task groups, so make selection of
> SCHED_AUTOGROUP exclude RT_GROUP_SCHED.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Reported-by:Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> ---
>  init/Kconfig |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/init/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/init/Kconfig
> +++ linux-2.6/init/Kconfig
> @@ -699,6 +699,7 @@ config RT_GROUP_SCHED
>         bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
>         depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>         depends on CGROUP_SCHED
> +       depends on !SCHED_AUTOGROUP
>         default n
>         help
>           This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth
> @@ -807,6 +808,10 @@ config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
>           desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
>           upon task session.
>  
> +         Note: SCHED_AUTOGROUP does not support realtime tasks, and prevents
> +         enabling RT_GROUP_SCHED.  If you intend to use group scheduling for
> +         realtime tasks, do not enable this option.
> +
>  config MM_OWNER
>         bool
>   

Uhm, no. The right way is to put tasks back into the root group and then
perform sched_setscheduler().