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CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y harmuflull for real time applications


Piezo

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Since linux v5.4 armbian_build enables the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED config option.

 

Some armbian users use the soft real-time features for either real-time audio (jackd), or control (eg. klipper_host_mcu),

However, real-time group scheduling, enabled by this options complicates the user space configuration required to acquire real-time scheduling in applications and daemons.

 

Setting ulimit -r or LimitRTPRIO= is no longer enough, it is also required to allocate CPU time for RT task. In a brutal way this can be done as 
 

echo 950000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/{system,user}.slice/cpu.rt_runtime_us

JACK documentation recommends using cgroup-tools for configuration. This is redundant with systemd's own configuration of cgroups hierarchies.

 

However, it is currently not possible to setup with systemd configs files: the team responded "wontfix, accounting rules for RT_GROUP_SCHED are too convoluted for systemd to support"

The systemd's README was updated with the follwing warning:

Quote

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

 

I was hesitant to open an issue on armbuild_config. The changes in the config file are quite recent (Dec 2019) and probably unintentional (kernel default).

But, I could be missing something. Surely lots of folks use RT scheduling on their board. Maybe along with an older kernel ?

Does real-time group scheduling have any use on SBC ?

Do you have simpler solution for this problem (other than CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=n) ?

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