linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF like policy

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Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:06:33 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF like policy

Hi Mike!

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:36:01PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-03-08 at 09:39 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > Curiosity got the best of me...
> 
> Remember this little bugger, allegedly distilled from a real
> application control thread starvation issue?

Oooh, yeah, I should still have that somewhere. I'll try and remember
what exactly was needed to make it behave properly.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll go prod at things a bit more. Like I
wrote, the code is more or less at the point where it stopped crashing
and doing obviously bad things. It definitely needs a more attention.