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DateMon, 14 May 2007 16:52:59 +0530
FromSrivatsa Vaddagiri <>
SubjectRe: fair clock use in CFS
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:05:00AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The variability in ->fair_clock advancement rate was the mistake, at
> least according to my way of thinking. The queue's virtual time clock
> effectively stops under sufficiently high load, possibly literally in
> the event of fixpoint underflow. 

[snip]

> Basically it needs to move closer to EEVDF in these respects.

Doesn't EEVDF have the same issue? From the paper:

	V(t) = 1/(w1 + w2 + ...wn)

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Regards,
vatsa
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