Re: Scheduler queues for less os-jitter?

[Mike Galbraith]

On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 10:20 +0100, Uwaysi Bin Kareem wrote: 
> Ok, anyway realtime processes did not work quite as expected.  
> ("overloaded" machine, even though cpu-time is only 10%). So I guess I  
> have to enable cgroups and live with the overhead then.
> 
> If I set cpu-limits there, does that involve an absolute value, or is it  
> normalized, so that even if I do 0.001% cpu for processes, they get all  
> cpu, when there is nothing running?

See Documentation/cgroups.  Between cgroups, cpusets, scheduler classes
and priorities, you have heaping truckloads of control over what runs
where and when.  The missing element in your low jitter quest is a
desktop and applications that were written for realtime performance.

-Mike

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