linux-kernel - Re: High priority threads causing severe CPU load imbalances

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Message-ID: <1270626261.5109.538.camel@twins>
Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:44:21 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
Cc:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: High priority threads causing severe CPU load imbalances

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:42 -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> That's less fair but strictly better than the current solution, 
> and nothing bounces. 

The fairness thing, that really matters a lot to some people.

I've had enterprise bugs filed over such behaviour as you describe.
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