Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.3.1 for 2.6.16-rc5 | Date | Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:27:09 +0300 |
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Peter Williams wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > >>>> Al Boldi wrote: > >>>>> Also, different schedulers per cpu could be rather useful. > >>>> > >>>> I think that would be dangerous. However, different schedulers per > >>>> cpuset might make sense but it involve a fair bit of work. > >>> > >>> I'm curious. How do you think different schedulers per cpu would be > >>> useful? > >> > >> I don't but I think they MIGHT make sense for cpusets e.g. one set with > >> a scheduler targeted at interactive tasks and another targeted at > >> server tasks. NB the emphasis on might.
Exactly.
> > I am curious as to Al's answer since he asked for the feature.
Can you imagine how neat it would be to set timeslice per cpuset/workload?
> > It would be > > easy for me to modify the staircase cpu scheduler to allow the > > interactive and compute modes be set on a per-cpu basis if that was > > desired. For that to be helpful of course you'd have to manually set > > affinity for the tasks or logins you wanted to run on each cpu(s).
Your staircase scheduler is great, and adding this feature would make it unique.
Thanks!
-- Al
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