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The timerslack_ns setting is used to specify how much the hardware timers should be delayed, to potentially dispatch multiple timers in a single interrupt. This is a performance optimization. Timers of realtime tasks (having a realtime scheduling policy) should not be delayed. This logic was inconsitently applied to the hrtimers, leading to delays of realtime tasks which used timed waits for events (e.g. condition variables). Due to the downstream override of the slack for rt tasks, the procfs reported incorrect (non-zero) timerslack_ns values. This is changed by setting the timer_slack_ns task attribute to 0 for all tasks with a rt policy. By that, downstream users do not need to specially handle rt tasks (w.r.t. the slack), and the procfs entry shows the correct value of "0". Setting non-zero slack values (either via procfs or PR_SET_TIMERSLACK) on tasks with a rt policy is ignored, as stated in "man 2 PR_SET_TIMERSLACK": Timer slack is not applied to threads that are scheduled under a real-time scheduling policy (see sched_setscheduler(2)). The special handling of timerslack on rt tasks in downstream users is removed as well. Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814121032.368444-2-felix.moessbauer@siemens.com [Sultan Alsawaf: backport to 6.1] Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com> Change-Id: I8b2c81ffdeea181ab729935de71d1b0131c16ffc Signed-off-by: Richard Raya <rdxzv.dev@gmail.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.