Please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805397 If you don't put "ControlGroup=cpu:/" in the "[Service]" section, the realtime scheduling setting will get a permission denied and the watchdog will eventually miss it's deadline. I have just had my machine reboot twice due to this....
pull request: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1978
The "ControlGroup" directive was removed: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/dc7adf202b82fc0054c457ce6ca3bcedb88dde57