Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:01:26 +1000 | From | Peter Williams <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.3.1 for 2.6.16-rc5 |
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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 -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au
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