Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] sched: Extended scheduler time slice

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Feb 10 2025 - 12:27:15 EST


On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:20:59 +0000
David Laight <david.laight.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmmm... you lose big-time anyway.
>
> All you need is a lot of network traffic 'pinch' the process context until
> the hardware interrupt, NAPI softint code and rcu softint code completes.
> That can easily take several milliseconds.

Not on PREEMPT_RT. All that runs as threads.

And this is a feature that we would like on RT for non RT tasks.

-- Steve