Re: [PATCH] sched: Don't allow priority switch to realtime whenthe task doesn't belong to init_task_group and when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHEDisn't set

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 10:36:57 EST


On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:24 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:16 +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Which would mean the init_task_group becase it contains those tasks which are
> >>not grouped.
> >
> >
> > Only because of implementation details (we implement the !group case by
> > having them all part of a single group), conceptually they don't belong
> > to any group, hence talking about moving it to some group is just wrong.
>
> > Furthermore your statement shows another misconception, a group of
> > ungrouped tasks doesn't make sense.
>
> Arguably there is such a group, which is "the set of all RT tasks".

Sure, I understand that, and in fact that's how its implemented, no
group is still one group (which is how you can bootstrap math from
group/set theory).

But its not a manageable group in the cgroup sense, its just the
collection of RT tasks.

> Whether or not they should map to the top-level cgroup is a different
> question. Maybe in the !group case there should be a second top-level
> "rt" cgroup? We could even make the RT sched tuning knobs available there.

I'd rather just not display all that. We don't go make such 'unmanaged'
groups for other not configured controllers either.



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