linux-kernel - Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

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Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 11:42:20 -0700
From:	"Li, Tong N" <tong.n.li@...el.com>
To:	tingy@...umass.edu
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

>   Based on my understanding, adopting something like EEVDF in CFS should 
> not be very difficult given their similarities, although I do not have 
> any idea on how this impacts the load balancing for SMP. Does this worth 
> a try?
> 
>   Sorry for such a long email :-)

Thanks for the excellent explanation. I think EEVDF and many algs alike
assume global ordering of all tasks in the system (based on virtual
time), whereas CFS does so locally on each processor and relies on load
balancing to achieve fairness across processors. It'd achieve strong
fairness locally, but I'm not sure about its global fairness properties
in an MP environment. If ideally the total load weight on each processor
is always the same, then local fairness would imply global fairness, but
this is a bin packing problem and is intractable ...

  tong
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