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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.3.1 for 2.6.16-rc5
Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 09:04, Peter Williams wrote:
>> Al Boldi wrote:
>
>>> Is there a module to autotune these values according to cpu/mem/ctxt
>>> performance?
>
> I think you're thinking of Jake's genetic algorithms (separate patch). They
> tune the zaphod scheduler but bear in mind the limitation of such an
> algorithm is they can only tune for one workload which means that if you have
> two workloads running concurrently with different requirements, the other
> will suffer.
>
>>> Also, different schedulers per cpu could be rather useful.
>>> Peter Williams wrote:
>> 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.

Peter
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