From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: resend: KERNEL BUG: nice level should not affect SCHED_RR timeslice
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:18:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F56F37.6090407@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703122027.17219.kernel@kolivas.org>
Con Kolivas wrote:
> Indeed we do change timeslice with nice on rt_tasks in mainline at the moment.
> Truth is most rt programming couldn't care less about timeslices, but your
> point about it deviating from the standard is valid. RSDL does not change
> timeslice with nice on SCHED_RR tasks so it's sort of getting addressed by
> proxy.
Unfortunately we have some vendor-supplied software that does care about
timeslices. It's a crazy thing with multiple SCHED_RR kernel threads
that don't really self-manage very well. They're spawned by a
SCHED_OTHER task and inherit its nice level.
We modified the startup for the spawning task to run it at a lower nice
level and were fairly surprised when the latency of message handling
went way up.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-12 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-07 23:19 resend: KERNEL BUG: nice level should not affect SCHED_RR timeslice Chris Friesen
2007-03-12 9:27 ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-12 15:18 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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2007-03-06 15:43 Chris Friesen
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