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

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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:08:15 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
	Dario Faggioli <raistlin@...ux.it>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 08:49, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> writes:
> > Well, we might have a public opinion poll, whether a system is
> > declared frozen after 1, 10 or 100 seconds. Even a one second
> > unresponsivness shows up on the kernel bugzilla and you request that
> > unlimited unresponsivness w/o a chance to debug it is the sane
> > default.
>
> That assumes single CPU. With multiple CPUs and not
> all hogged the system should be still responsive?

Right.

But also it assumes desktop/general purpose server thing.

There may not even be any user interface to be unresponsive. Or it
may be something implemented with a userspace driven scheduling
system. Or an event loop in a single process.
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