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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:00:40 +0200
From: luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Subject: Re: SCHED_DEADLINE as user
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:37:39 +0200
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > Maybe the existing system wide sched_rt_{period,
> > > runtime}_us are enough?  
> > 
> > I do not know... A cgroup-based interface looks more powerful (and
> > not so difficult to implement... :), and would allow the sysadmin
> > to decide which users can use SCHED_DEADLINE, how much
> > SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth can each user/group use, etc...  
> 
> How about extending PAM limits instead? It looks like it's what (e.g.)
> audio users rely on already [1]. It is maybe possible to add
> dlruntime, dlperiod, dldeadline parameters in there?

Ok, I do not know much about these PAM limits... Where can I find more
information? What do we need to implement exactly, to add these
dlruntime, dlperiod, dldeadline parameters?


			Thanks,
				Luca