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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-11 17:55:42 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-11 17:55:42 +0200
commit940010c5a314a7bd9b498593bc6ba1718ac5aec5 (patch)
treed141e08ced08c40c6a8e3ab2cdecde5ff14e560f /Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
parent8dc8e5e8bc0ce00b0f656bf972f67cd8a72759e5 (diff)
parent991ec02cdca33b03a132a0cacfe6f0aa0be9aa8d (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c include/linux/sched.h kernel/exit.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
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--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
CONTENTS
========
+0. WARNING
1. Overview
1.1 The problem
1.2 The solution
@@ -14,6 +15,23 @@ CONTENTS
3. Future plans
+0. WARNING
+==========
+
+ Fiddling with these settings can result in an unstable system, the knobs are
+ root only and assumes root knows what he is doing.
+
+Most notable:
+
+ * very small values in sched_rt_period_us can result in an unstable
+ system when the period is smaller than either the available hrtimer
+ resolution, or the time it takes to handle the budget refresh itself.
+
+ * very small values in sched_rt_runtime_us can result in an unstable
+ system when the runtime is so small the system has difficulty making
+ forward progress (NOTE: the migration thread and kstopmachine both
+ are real-time processes).
+
1. Overview
===========
@@ -169,7 +187,7 @@ get their allocated time.
Implementing SCHED_EDF might take a while to complete. Priority Inheritance is
the biggest challenge as the current linux PI infrastructure is geared towards
-the limited static priority levels 0-139. With deadline scheduling you need to
+the limited static priority levels 0-99. With deadline scheduling you need to
do deadline inheritance (since priority is inversely proportional to the
deadline delta (deadline - now).