Re: [RFC 10/12][PATCH] SCHED_DEADLINE: group bandwidth managementcode

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Dec 28 2009 - 14:28:08 EST


On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:46 +0200, Raistlin wrote:
> CPU Container Groups support for SCHED_DEADLINE is introduced by this commit.
>
> CGroups, if configured, have a SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth, and it is enforced
> that the sum of the bandwidths of entities (tasks and groups) belonging to
> a group stays below its own bandwidth.

No real comment on the code here, but since we have a deadline bandwidth
reservation, should we not also couple to the existing rt (fifo)
bandwidth reservation?

We can't after all guarantee the FIFO time if there's deadline
reservations around for more.

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