Re: [PATCH V6 1/7] Sched: Scheduler time slice extension

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 10:42:36AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> What's worse is that it breaks the LAZY semantics. I explained this to
> you before and this thing needs to be tied on the LAZY bit otherwise a
> SCHED_OTHER task can prevent a real-time task from running, which is
> fundamentally wrong.

So here we disagree, I don't want this tied to LAZY.

SCHED_OTHER can already inhibit a RT task from getting ran by doing a
syscall, this syscall will have non-preemptible sections and the RT task
will get delayed.

I very much want this thing to be limited to a time frame where a
userspace critical section (this thing) is smaller than such a kernel
critical section.

That is, there should be no observable difference between the effects of
this new thing and a syscall doing preempt_disable().


That said; the reason I don't want this tied to LAZY is that RT itself
is not subject to LAZY and this then means that RT threads cannot make
use of this new facility, whereas I think it makes perfect sense for
them to use this.