On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Gregory Haskins wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:13 AM, in message

See the issue. The RT task on CPU0 may experience huge latencies.

Agreed, but equal priority threads can always cause unbounded latencies by definition.  I.e. we only guarantee to the highest thread.

It should not when they are bounded to two separate CPUs, and are the
highest priority tasks on those CPUS.  That will be hard to explain, how a
the highest prio tasks bounded to a single CPU had an unbounded latency.
With the patches presented, this can happen.

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Remember, RT is worried about latencies over performance.
If we can not ***guarantee*** a bounded latency, then, I don't care
how good the perfomance is, it is not good enough for RT.


That said, here's the compromise.

Non-RT tasks care more about overall perfomance than worst case latencies.
So.... See imbedded:

This isn't a bad idea, but note that it means RT tasks will not get a performance boost, which is quite substantial.

Again, no performance is good enough for an RT task if it risks the
slightest chance of causing an unbounded latency.

-- Steve

Note that I have substantially cleaned up this patch for the drop I will make later this week (v3).