Re: [RFC PATCH 07/11] sched: Add proxy execution

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 04:48:09PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:53:19 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > >From this it is easy to see that the critical secion executes with the  
> > direct sum of the blockchain as a whole (all of them will have donated
> > their relative time to make the owner elegible again) -- provided the
> > critical section is of course long enough for this to matter (or it's
> > owner's weight small enough etc..).
> 
> Does this mean that a lower priority task could do a sort of DOS attack
> on a high priority task, if it creates a bunch of threads that
> constantly grabs a shared lock from the higher priority task? That is,
> the higher priority task could possibly lose a lot of its quota due to
> other tasks running on its behalf in the critical section?

Less than without PE; without PE the high prio task will be blocked and
starved, with PE at least they'll help push the low prio thing ahead and
get on with things.

Additionally, the highest priotiy waiter will get the lock next.