Re: RLIMIT_RTTIME documentation for getrlimit.2

[Michael Kerrisk]

>  > Below is the draft text that I will add to the getrlimit.2 man page to describe
>  > RLIMIT_RTTIME.  Does it look okay to you?  (I will add a pointer in
>  > sched_setscheduler.2 to this description in getrlimit.2.)
>  >
>  >       RLIMIT_RTTIME (Since Linux 2.6.25)
>  >              Specifies a limit on the amount of CPU time that a
>  >              process  scheduled  under  a  real-time scheduling
>  >              policy may consume without making a blocking  sys-
>  >              tem  call.   For  the  purpose of this limit, each
>  >              time a process makes a blocking system  call,  the
>  >              count  of  its consumed CPU time is reset to zero.
>  >              The CPU time count is not  reset  if  the  process
>  >              continues  trying to use the CPU but is preempted,
>  >              its   time   slice   expires,    or    it    calls
>  >              sched_yield(2).
>  >
>  >              Upon  reaching the soft limit, the process is sent
>  >              a SIGXCPU  signal.   If  the  process  catches  or
>  >              ignores  this  signal  and continues consuming CPU
>  >              time, then SIGXCPU will  be  generated  once  each
>  >              second  until  the hard limit is reached, at which
>  >              point the process is sent a SIGKILL signal.
>  >
>  >              The intended use of this limit is to stop  a  run-
>  >              away real-time process from locking up the system.
>
>
> Looks excellent, thanks!

Good -- thanks for checking it over.

>  Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>  in so far that is applicable to man pages ;-)

It works for me.

Cheers,

Michael

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