Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:02:06 -0800 | From | "Paul Menage" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched: rt-group: interface |
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: > > If so, could we avoid that problem by using 0 rather than -1 as the > > "unlimited" value? It looks from what I've read in the Documentation > > changes as though 0 isn't really a meaningful value. > > 0 means no time, quite useful and clearly distinct from inf. time. >
So a real-time task in a cgroup with a 0 rt_runtime can be in the R state but never actually get to run? OK, if people need to be able to do that then fair enough.
In that case I guess I'll have to add signed versions of the read_uint/write_uint methods.
Paul
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