Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 17:17:15 +0400 | From | Kirill Korotaev <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 2/5] sched: Add CPU rate soft caps |
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>> I understand that, I was talking about fairness between capped tasks >> and what might be considered fair or intutive between capped tasks and >> regular tasks. Of course, the last point is debatable ;) > > > Well, the primary fairness mechanism in the scheduler is the time slice > allocation and the capping code doesn't fiddle with those so there > should be a reasonable degree of fairness (taking into account "nice") > between capped tasks. To improve that would require allocating several > new priority slots for use by tasks exceeding their caps and fiddling > with those. I don't think that it's worth the bother. I suppose it should be handled still. a subjective feeling :)
BTW, do you have any test results for your patch? It would be interesting to see how precise these limitations are and whether or not we should bother for the above...
Kirill
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