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Message-ID: <20070418175936.GA11980@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:59:36 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> In that sense 'fairness' is not global (and in fact it is almost
> _never_ a global property, as X runs under root uid [*]), it is only
> the most lowlevel scheduling machinery that can then be built upon.
> [...]
perhaps a more fitting term would be 'precise group-scheduling'. Within
the lowest level task group entity (be that thread group or uid group,
etc.) 'precise scheduling' is equivalent to 'fairness'.
Ingo
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