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From: Andi Kleen
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [5/6] scheduler: Protect important kernel threads against normalize_rt
Date: Monday, October 8, 2007 - 6:08 am

On Monday 08 October 2007 14:43:50 Ingo Molnar wrote:

I considered doing it this way too. But it means that if keventd
(or another workqueue thread) starts looping for some reason you cannot renormalize it.
Might be not a good thing and impact debuggability. I think it's better to only 
protect special threads.

-Andi
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[PATCH] [0/6] Some scheduler changes for sched-devel, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 1:59 pm)
[PATCH] [1/6] scheduler: Remove some unnecessary gotos in ..., Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 1:59 pm)
[PATCH] [2/6] scheduler: Refactor common code of sleep_on ..., Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 1:59 pm)
[PATCH] [3/6] scheduler: Do devirtualization for sched_fair, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 1:59 pm)
[PATCH] [4/6] scheduler: Refactor normalize_rt_tasks, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 1:59 pm)
[PATCH] [5/6] scheduler: Protect important kernel threads ..., Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 1:59 pm)
[PATCH] [6/6] scheduler: Remove bogus comment in sched_gro ..., Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 1:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [2/6] scheduler: Refactor common code of sleep ..., Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 7, 3:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [1/6] scheduler: Remove some unnecessary gotos ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 4:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] [2/6] scheduler: Refactor common code of sleep ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 4:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] [3/6] scheduler: Do devirtualization for sched ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 4:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] [4/6] scheduler: Refactor normalize_rt_tasks, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 4:44 am)
Re: [PATCH] [5/6] scheduler: Protect important kernel thre ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 4:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] [6/6] scheduler: Remove bogus comment in sched ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 4:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] [2/6] scheduler: Refactor common code of sleep ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 5:03 am)
Re: [PATCH] [3/6] scheduler: Do devirtualization for sched ..., Andi Kleen, (Mon Oct 8, 5:32 am)
Re: [PATCH] [5/6] scheduler: Protect important kernel thre ..., Andi Kleen, (Mon Oct 8, 5:33 am)
Re: [PATCH] [3/6] scheduler: Do devirtualization for sched ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 5:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] [5/6] scheduler: Protect important kernel thre ..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Oct 8, 5:43 am)
Re: [PATCH] [5/6] scheduler: Protect important kernel thre ..., Andi Kleen, (Mon Oct 8, 6:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] [3/6] scheduler: Do devirtualization for sched ..., Andi Kleen, (Mon Oct 8, 7:33 am)
Re: [PATCH] [1/6] scheduler: Remove some unnecessary gotos ..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Oct 9, 12:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [1/6] scheduler: Remove some unnecessary gotos ..., Andi Kleen, (Tue Oct 9, 5:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH] [1/6] scheduler: Remove some unnecessary gotos ..., Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 10, 4:25 am)
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