linux-kernel - Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:15:57 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Rogan Dawes <lists@...es.za.net>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@....jussieu.fr>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
	ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

Rogan Dawes wrote:

> My concern was that since Ingo said that this is a closed economy, with 
> a fixed sum/total, if we lose a nanosecond here and there, eventually 
> we'll lose them all.

I assume Ingo has set it up so that the system doesn't "lose" partial 
nanoseconds, but rather they'd just be accounted to the wrong task.

Chris
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