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authorTommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>2016-09-09 19:45:17 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-09-10 11:17:41 +0200
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sched/deadline: Document behavior of sched_yield()
This is a documentation only patch, explaining the behavior of sched_yield() when a SCHED_DEADLINE task calls it (give up remaining runtime and be throttled until next period begins). Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-dl@retis.sssup.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473443117-11794-2-git-send-email-tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ CONTENTS
4.1 System-wide settings
4.2 Task interface
4.3 Default behavior
+ 4.4 Behavior of sched_yield()
5. Tasks CPU affinity
5.1 SCHED_DEADLINE and cpusets HOWTO
6. Future plans
@@ -426,6 +427,23 @@ CONTENTS
Finally, notice that in order not to jeopardize the admission control a
-deadline task cannot fork.
+
+4.4 Behavior of sched_yield()
+-----------------------------
+
+ When a SCHED_DEADLINE task calls sched_yield(), it gives up its
+ remaining runtime and is immediately throttled, until the next
+ period, when its runtime will be replenished (a special flag
+ dl_yielded is set and used to handle correctly throttling and runtime
+ replenishment after a call to sched_yield()).
+
+ This behavior of sched_yield() allows the task to wake-up exactly at
+ the beginning of the next period. Also, this may be useful in the
+ future with bandwidth reclaiming mechanisms, where sched_yield() will
+ make the leftoever runtime available for reclamation by other
+ SCHED_DEADLINE tasks.
+
+
5. Tasks CPU affinity
=====================