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Message-ID: <20070418181218.GA13628@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:12:18 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
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]
* William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> wrote:
> It does largely achieve the sort of fairness it set out for itself as
> its design goal. One should also note that the queueing mechanism is
> more than flexible enough to handle prioritization by a number of
> different methods, and the large precision of its priorities is useful
> there. So a rather broad variety of policies can be implemented by
> changing the ->fair_key calculations.
yeah. Note that i concentrated on the bit that makes the largest
interactivity improvement: to implement "precise scheduling" (a'ka
complete fairness) between the 100+ user tasks that do a complex
scheduling dance on a typical desktop on various workloads.
Ingo
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