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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2015-07-12 11:43:10 +0200
committerTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2015-07-12 11:43:10 +0200
commite239b628e095b68ad8f7e62c76c29dce9c6a940e (patch)
tree6a78392e6d6d7350ba66ad34567a407cbb570211 /README
parent08abe30e782549df5ca4199a816d67bff852e07b (diff)
parentf4e74be1856b3ac058acbf1be321c31d5299f69f (diff)
Merge pull request #553 from poettering/rt-group-sched
README: document that RT group sched should be turned off
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 53220ff3f2..e15fa77dee 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
CONFIG_SECCOMP
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE (for the kcmp() syscall)
- Required for CPUShares in resource control unit settings
+ Required for CPUShares= in resource control unit settings
CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
- Required for CPUQuota in resource control unit settings
+ Required for CPUQuota= in resource control unit settings
CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH
For systemd-bootchart, several proc debug interfaces are required:
@@ -97,6 +97,15 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
+ We recommend to turn off Real-Time group scheduling in the
+ kernel when using systemd. RT group scheduling effectively
+ makes RT scheduling unavailable for most userspace, since it
+ requires explicit assignment of RT budgets to each unit whose
+ processes making use of RT. As there's no sensible way to
+ assign these budgets automatically this cannot really be
+ fixed, and it's best to disable group scheduling hence.
+ CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=n
+
Note that kernel auditing is broken when used with systemd's
container code. When using systemd in conjunction with
containers, please make sure to either turn off auditing at