linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704141623310.12147@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:26:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair
 Scheduler [CFS]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> Haven't looked at the scheduler code yet, but for a similar problem I use 
> a time ring. The ring has Ns (2 power is better) slots (where tasks are 
> queued - in my case they were som sort of timers), and it has a current 
> base index (Ib), a current base time (Tb) and a time granularity (Tg). It 
> also has a bitmap with bits telling you which slots contains queued tasks. 
> An item (task) that has to be scheduled at time T, will be queued in the slot:
> 
> S = Ib + min((T - Tb) / Tg, Ns - 1);

... mod Ns, of course ;)


- Davide


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