Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: Don't active rt throtting when no running cfs task

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 16 2020 - 13:07:53 EST


On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:59:00AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:01:58 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:50:27AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:37:29 +0800
> > > Lichao Liu <liulichao@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Active rt throtting will dequeue rt_rq from rq at least 50ms,
> > > > When there is no running cfs task, do we still active it?
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is something I would like to have.
> > >
> > > Peter, what's your thought on this?
> >
> > I'd love to just delete all of this.. that said, I'm not sure this
> > change makes sense, because it doesn't deal sanely with the case where
> > the task will appear right after we did this.
>
> I haven't looked closely at the surrounding code, but wouldn't it get
> throttled in the next period? Do we care if a task has to wait a bit
> longer?

Either way around, who cares?

> > The right thing to do is that fair deadline server thing.
>
> But we've been saying that for years now.

Hey, I even coded most of it, but clearly nobody cares about this enough
to finish it ...