Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

Esben Nielsen
2007-04-15T12:30:21Z

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> [announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]
>
> i'm pleased to announce the first release of the "Modular Scheduler Core
> and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]" patchset:
>
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-modular+cfs.patch
>
> This project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal
> is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the
> vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both
> for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads.
>
> [...]

I took a brief look at it. Have you tested priority inheritance?
As far as I can see rt_mutex_setprio doesn't have much effect on
SCHED_FAIR/SCHED_BATCH. I am looking for a place where such a task change
scheduler class when boosted in rt_mutex_setprio().

Esben