Re: [PATCH RFC v0 00/12] Cyclic Scheduler Against RTC

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 22:29 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This a crude cyclic scheduler implementation. It uses SCHED_FIFO tasks
> and runs them according to a map pattern specified by a 64 bit mask. Each
> bit corresponds to an entry into an 64 entry array of
> 'struct task_struct'. This works single core CPU 0 only for now.
> 
> Threads are 'admitted' to this map by an extension to the ioctl() via the
> of (rtc) real-time clock interface. The bit pattern then determines when
> the task will run or activate next.
> 
> The /dev/rtc interface is choosen for this purpose because of its
> accessibilty to userspace. For example, the mplayer program already use
> it as a timer source and could possibly benefit from being sync to a
> vertical retrace interrupt during decoding. Could be an OpenGL program
> needing precisely scheduler support for those same handling vertical
> retrace interrupts, low latency audio and timely handling of touch
> events amognst other uses.

Sounds like you want SGI's frame rate scheduler.

	-Mike