linux-kernel - Re: A nice CPU resource controller

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Message-ID: <17655.10676.495815.148740@base.ty.sabi.co.UK>
Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:25:56 +0100
From:	pg_lkm@....for.sabi.co.UK (Peter Grandi)
To:	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A nice CPU resource controller

>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:14:13 +0200, Martin Ohlin
>>> <martin.ohlin@...trol.lth.se> said:

martin.ohlin> To those interested I have been working on a CPU
martin.ohlin> resource controller using the nice value as a
martin.ohlin> control signal. At the moment, the control is done
martin.ohlin> on a per-task-level, but I have plans to extend it
martin.ohlin> to groups of tasks. [ ... ]

This reminds me of fair share schedulers, which were popular
some decades ago on mainframes and early UNIX systems.

* G. J. Henry "The fair share scheduler AT&T", Bell
  Lab.Tech. J. 1845-1857 63, 8 (Oct.).

* Judy Kay, Piers Lauder "A Fair Share Scheduler CACM", 31:1,
  44-55 January 1988. <http://WWW.CS.USyd.edu.AU/~piers/>

* %A J. Larmouth
  %T Scheduling for a share of the machine
  %J SPE
  %V 5
  %N 1
  %D JAN 1975
  %P 29-49
  %X <URL:http://WWW.CL.Cam.ac.UK/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-2.pdf>

* %A J. Larmouth
  %T Scheduling for immediate turnround
  %J SPE
  %V 8
  %D 1978
  %P 559-578
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