Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default

Nick Piggin
2008-08-27T10:08:33Z

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 08:49, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes:
> > Well, we might have a public opinion poll, whether a system is
> > declared frozen after 1, 10 or 100 seconds. Even a one second
> > unresponsivness shows up on the kernel bugzilla and you request that
> > unlimited unresponsivness w/o a chance to debug it is the sane
> > default.
>
> That assumes single CPU. With multiple CPUs and not
> all hogged the system should be still responsive?

Right.

But also it assumes desktop/general purpose server thing.

There may not even be any user interface to be unresponsive. Or it
may be something implemented with a userspace driven scheduling
system. Or an event loop in a single process.