Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v5

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > yeah - but they'll all be quad core, so the SMP timeslice 
> > multiplicator should do the trick. Most of the CFS testers use 
> > single-CPU systems.
> 
> But desktop users could have have quad thread and even 8 thread CPUs 
> soon, [...]

SMT is indeed an issue, so i think what should be used to scale 
timeslices isnt num_online_cpus(), but the sum of all CPU's ->cpu_power 
value (scaled down by SCHED_LOAD_SCALE). That way if the thread is not a 
'full CPU', then the scaling will be proportionally smaller. Can you see 
any hole in that?

	Ingo
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