linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH V3 6/6] sched/fair: Implement starvation monitor

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Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:05:07 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>,
        Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@...tannapisa.it>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@...byteword.org>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V3 6/6] sched/fair: Implement starvation monitor

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 03:41:30PM +0200, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:

> In an 0-laxity scheduler, the server would run at 0-laxity, jumping in
> front of DL tasks... that would break EDF. It would be mixing two
> schedulers in one. It is not required and likely not a good idea either.

I did consider a hybrid 0-laxity and EDF scheduler for mixed
criticality, as have others like Ted Baker IIRC. IIRC it can be done
using an augmented tree, but none of that solves the problems 0-laxity
has (like over preemption and the general problem of playing chicken by
doing things at the *VERY* last possible moment).

I think I did a talk at OSPERT on this at some point many years ago.
Luckily some bright fellow had this semi-partitioned stuff that would
make live much simpler :-)