Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:18:11 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Network slowdown due to CFS |
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* Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> wrote:
> > [...] The timeslices of tasks (i.e. the time they spend on a CPU > > without scheduling away) is _not_ maintained directly in CFS as a > > per-task variable that can be "cleared", it's not the metric that > > drives scheduling. Yes, of course CFS too "slices up CPU time", but > > those slices are not the per-task variables of traditional > > schedulers and cannot be 'cleared'. > > It's not about this comment alone, but this comment plus "no notion" > comment, which appears in sched-design-CFS.txt too.
ok - i've re-read it and it indeed is somewhat confusing without additional context. I'll improve the wording. (sched-design-CFS.txt needs an update anyway)
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