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Message-ID: <46A7B8A9.4040400@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:55:05 -0400
From: Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tong Li <tong.n.li@...el.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS
Chris Friesen wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> the 3s is the problem: change that to 60s! We no way want to
>> over-migrate for SMP fairness, the change i did gives us reasonable
>> long-term SMP fairness without the need for high-rate rebalancing.
>
> Actually, I do have requirements from our engineering guys for
> short-term fairness. They'd actually like decent fairness over even
> shorter intervals...1 second would be nice, 2 is acceptable.
>
> They are willing to trade off random peak performance for predictability.
>
> Chris
>
The sysctls for CFS have nanosecond resolution. They default to
millisecond-order values, but you can set them much lower. See sched_fair.c for
the knobs and their explanations.
-- Chris
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