Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sun Apr 15 2007 - 19:54:37 EST


* William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I've been suggesting testing CPU bandwidth allocation as influenced by
>> nice numbers for a while now for a reason.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:57:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Oh I was very much testing "CPU bandwidth allocation as influenced by
> nice numbers" - it's one of the basic things i do when modifying the
> scheduler. An automated tool, while nice (all automation is nice)
> wouldnt necessarily show such bugs though, because here too it needed
> thousands of running tasks to trigger in practice. Any volunteers? ;)

Worse comes to worse I might actually get around to doing it myself.
Any more detailed descriptions of the test for a rainy day?


-- wli
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