Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:12:18 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS] |
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* William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> It does largely achieve the sort of fairness it set out for itself as > its design goal. One should also note that the queueing mechanism is > more than flexible enough to handle prioritization by a number of > different methods, and the large precision of its priorities is useful > there. So a rather broad variety of policies can be implemented by > changing the ->fair_key calculations.
yeah. Note that i concentrated on the bit that makes the largest interactivity improvement: to implement "precise scheduling" (a'ka complete fairness) between the 100+ user tasks that do a complex scheduling dance on a typical desktop on various workloads.
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