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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 07/11] sched: Add proxy execution
On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:53:19 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> >From this it is easy to see that the critical secion executes with the
> direct sum of the blockchain as a whole (all of them will have donated
> their relative time to make the owner elegible again) -- provided the
> critical section is of course long enough for this to matter (or it's
> owner's weight small enough etc..).

Does this mean that a lower priority task could do a sort of DOS attack
on a high priority task, if it creates a bunch of threads that
constantly grabs a shared lock from the higher priority task? That is,
the higher priority task could possibly lose a lot of its quota due to
other tasks running on its behalf in the critical section?

-- Steve

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