Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS | From | "Li, Tong N" <> | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:11:07 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 04:07 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> To clarify, I'm not suggesting that the "balance with cpu (x+1)%n only" > algorithm is the only way to do this. Rather, I'm pointing out that > even an extremely simple algorithm can give you fair loading when you > already have CFS managing the runqueues. There are countless more > sophisticated ways we could do this without using global locking, or > possibly without any locking at all, other than the locking we already > use during migration. > > -- Chris
Yes, as Andi and Chris also pointed out, I'll think about if global synchronization can be removed or relaxed.
Thanks,
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