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From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:39:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sched/rt: Disable RT_RUNTIME_SHARE by default

References: bnc#1155798 (CPU scheduler functional and performance backports)
Git-commit: 2586af1ac187f6b3a50930a4e33497074e81762d
Patch-mainline: v5.10-rc1

The RT_RUNTIME_SHARE sched feature enables the sharing of rt_runtime
between CPUs, allowing a CPU to run a real-time task up to 100% of the
time while leaving more space for non-real-time tasks to run on the CPU
that lend rt_runtime.

The problem is that a CPU can easily borrow enough rt_runtime to allow
a spinning rt-task to run forever, starving per-cpu tasks like kworkers,
which are non-real-time by design.

This patch disables RT_RUNTIME_SHARE by default, avoiding this problem.
The feature will still be present for users that want to enable it,
though.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b776ab46817e3db5d8ef79175fa0d71073c051c7.1600697903.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 kernel/sched/features.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index 804fa6376660..5acf69d1640b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ SCHED_FEAT(WARN_DOUBLE_CLOCK, false)
 SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI, true)
 #endif
 
-SCHED_FEAT(RT_RUNTIME_SHARE, true)
+SCHED_FEAT(RT_RUNTIME_SHARE, false)
 SCHED_FEAT(LB_MIN, false)
 SCHED_FEAT(ATTACH_AGE_LOAD, true)