Re: [PATCH 13/15] sched: add bandwidth management for sched_dl.

[Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>]

On 05/29/2012 02:31 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 14:18 +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
>>> The thing is, keeping it separate makes for an impossible configuration
>>> scenario. Esp. once we enable !root usage. The proposed 5% is very
>>> limiting and regular users won't have sufficient privilege to change it.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, now I understand your point better, and I agree that 5% is hardly
>> usable for !root users. However, I also think this is probably more a
>> system admin problem. I mean, a sys admin that wants his users to play
>> with -deadline scheduling should have thought how to properly set up his
>> system, and the fact that something must be configured by hand to give
>> users a usable system is generally not a so bad idea.
>
> Yes, but lets not make the life of the unsuspecting admin harder than we
> absolutely have to.
>
> Furthermore we should strive to make DL as useful as possible
> out-of-the-box.
>

Ok, I agree on this.

> One way to do this is to have rt and dl bandwidth constraints
> independent and put a 3rd combined limit in place. But what is the
> benefit of that over a single combined limit?

In the end, a single limit is probably better. So, I'll leave rt_bandwidth
at its default value and make dl_bandwidth a sort of sub-quota of it.
To give the user an out-of-the-box usable system, I could raise dl_bandwith
to, let's say, 40% (of 95%). Thus, in the default scenario, the user will
be allowed to create _rt tasks up to 57% and _dl tasks up to 38% of the
system capacity, sounds reasonable?

Thanks and regards,

- Juri