Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR linux scheduler policy ...

Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org)
Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:49:42 +0100

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> With the current patch you do not need any special support if you are
> already asking for SCHED_RR policy. If you are not root you will be
> automatically downgraded to SCHED_SOFTRR ;)

Cool. What happens if you run two SCHED_SOFTRR tasks and they both
use 50% of the CPU - will that starve all the other tasks? Or is the
CPU usage of all SOFTRR tasks bounded collectively?

-- Jamie
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