Re: [RFC 2/5] sched: Add CPU rate soft caps

[Kirill Korotaev]

> > 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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