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

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-07-13 at 12:50, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > I finally found a couple of hours for this and I also found a machine were
> > I can run 2.5, since luck abandoned myself about this. The small page
> > describe the obvious and contain the trivial patch and the latecy test app :
> > 
> > http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/softrr.html
> 
> What happens if evil user forks 60 processes, marks them all
> SCHED_SOFTRR, and tries to starve everyone else?

With the current scheduler you lose. Rik did some playing with a fair
share scheduler some time ago. That actually works very well for a lot
of these sorts of things. You can nice processes up (but only by
penalising your own processes) and conceptually you'd be able to soft
real time on a per user basis this way. 

Alan