| Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:10:06 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Pre-emption control for userspace |
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:51:15PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > Anything else?
Proxy execution; its a form of PI that works for arbitrary scheduling policies (thus also very much including fair).
With that what you effectively end up with is the lock holder running 'boosted' by the runtime of its blocked chain until the entire chain runs out of time, at which point preemption doesn't matter anyhow.
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