Re: Scheduler RR, first time slice wrong?

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 10:19 +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Thursday 06 November 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Currently we inherit the RR time-slice from our parent. In case that is
> > init we inherit the 1s value set by default, in case its an already
> > running RR task, we inherit whatever is left.
> > 
> > Fix both these by resetting the time-slice on fork.
> 
> I remember that this MIGHT be on purpose to mitigate fork bombs.
> 
> Behaviour was, that you could starve others, if you fork, 
> do little or no work and fork again before your timeslice is over.
> 
> But I'm not sure this applies here...

Right, RT tasks have it easy starving stuff ;-)



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