linux-kernel - Re: report a bug about sched

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Message-Id: <1248442415.6987.56.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:33:35 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	sen wang <wangsen.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kernel@...ivas.org,
	npiggin@...e.de, arjan@...radead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: report a bug about sched_rt

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 21:26 +0800, sen wang wrote:
> don't tell me what theory. don't be so doctrinairism! OK?
> If cpu is free and there is a running state task,how can you scdedule
> idle task up?
> I tell you again:we are not talking about a bandwidth of 100% for RT!
> Bug lies in the bandwidth of (100- X)%.(X<100)
> even in the time of 100-X,if there is a rt task, you should not idle()
> the system.

*sigh*

Yes we should. I appreciate that you might assume otherwise, but you're
wrong. Suppose you have two competing bandwidth groups, which one will
run over, to what purpose?

Also, your next top post will go to /dev/null.
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