On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:06 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>  * is slice length, + is period length
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> Patch (sched_latency = 10, sched_min_gran = 10/3)
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> 30 |                             +
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> 20 |
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> 10 |  *  +  +  +  +  +  +  +
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>    |        *  *              *  *  *  *  *  *
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> 0  +---------------------------------------------------------
>    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 


Vertical is time , horz is nr_running.


Note how things fall of a cliff when nr_running goes from 8 to 9. Andrew
usually kicks people in the teeth for phase change behaviour.