Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR starve-free linux scheduling policy ...

[Jamie Lokier]

Mike Galbraith wrote:
> I also had some sound skips due to inheritance.  If I activate
> xmms's gl visualization under load, it inherits SCHED_SOFTRR, says
> "oink" in a very deep voice, and other xmms threads expire.  Maybe
> tasks shouldn't inherit SCHED_SOFTRR?

That's likely a bug in xmms - it shouldn't be passing the normal
SCHED_RR state to the gl visualizer.

Maybe SOFTRR should penalise the most CPU-using SOFTRR tasks, leaving
the remaining ones in the real-time state.

-- Jamie