linux-kernel - Re: CFS scheduler unfairly prefers pinned tasks

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Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2015 03:28:10 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CFS scheduler unfairly prefers pinned tasks

On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 07:44 +1100, paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au wrote:

> I agree that pinning may be bad... should not the kernel penalize the
> badly pinned processes?

I didn't say pinning is bad, I said was what you're seeing is not a bug.

	-Mike

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