Re: SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR broken by cfs

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Aug 18 2008 - 15:52:25 EST


On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:01 -0700, Max Krasnyansky wrote:

> Just wanted to mention that I'm with Nick on this one. I pointed this
> (ie POSIX breakage) out as soon as the change went in. I do have a valid
> (which some people disagree with ;-)) workload that uses 100% of the
> CPU. So my unit-tests caught this right away.
>
> Anyway, "RT bandwidth throttling" has been in and enabled be default
> since 2.6.25. So I'm not sure if it makes sense to revert the default at
> this point.

Already working on a patches to make it so..

The patch to change the default is simple enough - but I spotted a few
other bugs while poking at the issue Dario pointed out.

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