From: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cbf123@usask.ca>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SCHED] any modern replacement for RT_RUNTIME_GREED in the mainline kernel?
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 20:30:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ae90276-67f8-4b46-9cc5-1f7062eadfff@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49a1c1eb-5e80-4eb2-b882-a2df3ec12012@usask.ca>
On 12/6/24 18:12, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some time back (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fa5b1b55d8934c6a0e02e04a7ad6afdf4012c2e0.1478506194.git.bristot@redhat.com/) a patch was proposed that would allow high-CPU usage RT tasks to use 100% of the CPU as long as there were no non-RT tasks that wanted to run, but if a non-RT task did want to run the RT-throttling would kick in to prevent starvation and deadlocks.
>
> It was rejected for philosophical reasons, with a mention of a hypothetical deadline server being the "proper" solution.
>
> Has anything been done in this area in the years since then?
There has!
The 'hypothetical deadline server' was implemented and is part
of 6.12
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1716811043.git.bristot@kernel.org/
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