Re: [PATCH 4/7] perf: be less pessimistic when scheduling events

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:44:21PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This patch makes ctx_flexible_sched_in attempt to schedule every group
> in the flexible_groups list even when earlier groups failed to schedule,
> enabling more groups to be scheduled simultaneously.

Since you're basically free to create as many events as you want, you can
(as an unprivilidged user) make the context switch to and from your task
arbitrarily expensive.

So no, that's not going to fly.
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