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DateFri, 09 Jun 2006 16:05:08 +1000
FromPeter Williams <>
SubjectRe: [ckrm-tech] [RFC 0/4] sched: Add CPU rate caps (improved)
MAEDA Naoaki wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>> I've done some informal testing with smaller values of CAP_STATS_OFFSET 
>> and there is only a minor improvement.
>>
>> However, something that does improve behaviour for short lived tasks is 
>> to increase the value of HZ.  This is because the basic unit of CPU
>> allocation by the scheduler is 1/HZ and this is also the minimum time 
>> (and granularity) with which sinbinning and other capping measures can 
>> be implemented.  This is the fundamental limiting factor for the 
>> accuracy of capping i.e. if everything worked perfectly the best 
>> granularity that can be expected from capping of short lived tasks is 
>> 1000 / (HZ * duration) where duration is in seconds.
> 
> I already defines CONFIG_HZ=1000. Do you suggest increasing more?

No.

Peter
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