Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Wed Aug 27 2008 - 14:56:20 EST


Steven Rostedt wrote:

What I would suggest is this.

1) Keep the default as the infinite for those that know what they are
doing.

2) Change the sysctl scripts in the distros to set the default to a sane
time that will protect the users.

An RT app that would break the 10s limit would probably be using busybox
anyway, so the default for that would be what the kernel comes up with.

The default the 99% of users would have, is what the distro set it to
for them.

This seems like a sane solution to satisfy both camps.


Makes sense to me. It could even get sent out to users about as fast as a new kernel by itself, since they could just add a package dependency to update the init scripts when the end-user installs the new kernel package.

Anyone messing with the kernel directly is likely 1) smart enough to deal with existing FIFO semantics, and 2) able to modify their own init scripts to get some additional security if they so desire.

Chris
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