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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:08:23 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [5/6] scheduler: Protect important kernel threads against normalize_rt

On Monday 08 October 2007 14:43:50 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > softlockup is the same. Just think about it.
> > 
> > If you ever renormalize it and then run a fifo thread it will starve 
> > and then eventually kill the box.
> > 
> > And starving CPU unplug is also equally bad.
> 
> yeah, agreed. I ended up doing the change below.

I considered doing it this way too. But it means that if keventd
(or another workqueue thread) starts looping for some reason you cannot renormalize it.
Might be not a good thing and impact debuggability. I think it's better to only 
protect special threads.

-Andi
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