Re: [patch] CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler), v2

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Tue Apr 17 2007 - 03:52:09 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> this is the second release of the CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler)
>> patchset, against v2.6.21-rc7:
>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-cfs-v2.patch
>> i'd like to thank everyone for the tremendous amount of feedback and
>> testing the v1 patch got - i could hardly keep up with just reading the
>> mails! Some of the stuff people addressed i couldnt implement yet, i
>> mostly concentrated on bugs, regressions and debuggability.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:46:57PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> Have you considered using rq->raw_weighted_load instead of
> rq->nr_running in calculating fair_clock? This would take the nice
> value (or RT priority) of the other tasks into account when determining
> what's fair.

I suspect you mean (curr->load_weight*delta_exec)/rq->raw_weighted_load
in update_curr().


-- wli
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