Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:25:56 +0100 | Subject | Re: A nice CPU resource controller | From | (Peter Grandi) |
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>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:14:13 +0200, Martin Ohlin >>> <martin.ohlin@control.lth.se> said:
martin.ohlin> To those interested I have been working on a CPU martin.ohlin> resource controller using the nice value as a martin.ohlin> control signal. At the moment, the control is done martin.ohlin> on a per-task-level, but I have plans to extend it martin.ohlin> to groups of tasks. [ ... ]
This reminds me of fair share schedulers, which were popular some decades ago on mainframes and early UNIX systems.
* G. J. Henry "The fair share scheduler AT&T", Bell Lab.Tech. J. 1845-1857 63, 8 (Oct.).
* Judy Kay, Piers Lauder "A Fair Share Scheduler CACM", 31:1, 44-55 January 1988. <http://WWW.CS.USyd.edu.AU/~piers/>
* %A J. Larmouth %T Scheduling for a share of the machine %J SPE %V 5 %N 1 %D JAN 1975 %P 29-49 %X <URL:http://WWW.CL.Cam.ac.UK/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-2.pdf>
* %A J. Larmouth %T Scheduling for immediate turnround %J SPE %V 8 %D 1978 %P 559-578 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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