Re: cgroup, RT reservation per core(s)?

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 14:46 +0000, Rolando Martins wrote:
> 
> >  I've never actually tried anything like this, let me know if it
> >  works ;-)
> >
> 
> Thanks Peter, it works!

> I am thinking for different strategies to be used in my rt middleware
> project, and I think there is a limitation.
> If I wanted to have some RT on the B cpuset, I couldn't because I
> assigned A.cpu.rt_runtime_ns = root.cpu.rt_runtime_ns (then subdivided
> the A cpuset, with 2,3,4, each one having A.cpu.rt_runtime_ns/3).

Try it, you can run RT proglets in B.

You get n*utilization per schedule domain, where n is the number of cpus
in it.

So you still have 200% left in B, even if you use 200% of A.

> This happens because there is a
> global /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us and
> /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us.

These globals don't actually do much (except provide a global cap) in
the cgroup case.

> What do you think about adding a separate tuple (runtime,period) for
> each core/cpu?

> Does this make sense? ;)

That's going to give me a horrible head-ache trying to load-balance
stuff.