Re: [PATCH V6 3/6] sched/fair: Fair server interface

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Apr 12 2024 - 03:43:39 EST


On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 05:02:41PM +0200, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
> On 4/11/24 16:43, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > The 'defer' thing is dubious though, I don't suppose anybody would ever
> > want to actually change that, other than you while poking around at this
> > code, right?
>
> In a setup where all real-time tasks are DL (without fixed-priority tasks (FIFO/RR))
> the defer = 0 makes more sense because the bandwidth is reserved anyways, and the
> DL server would have a relatively low prio (long period).

Tell me more -- how is it better in that case? I would think it wouldn't
matter much.