Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler, -G1, 2.5.2-pre10, 2.4.17 (fwd) | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:59:33 +1100 |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.40.0201121237110.1559-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> y ou write: > > Aside from the cache utilization, this is not really "fair" -- the > > problem is, the current design of load_balance (which is quite good) > > just won't throw the tasks around so readily. What could be done -- > > cleanly -- to make this better? > > My opinion is: if it can be solved with no more than 20 lines of code > let's do it, otherwise let's see what kind of catastrophe will happen by > allowing such behavior.
Agree. Anyone who really has 3 CPU hogs on a 2 CPU machine, *and* never runs two more tasks to perturb the system, *and* notices that one runs twice the speed of the other two, *and* cares about fairness (ie. not RC5 etc), feel free to Email abuse to me. Not Ingo, he has real work to do 8)
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