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SubjectRe: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS
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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,

tong
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