Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS

[Chris Friesen]

Li, Tong N wrote:
> On the other hand, if locking does
> become a problem for certain systems/workloads, increasing
> sysctl_base_round_slice can reduce the locking frequency and alleviate
> the problem, at the cost of being relatively less fair across the CPUs. 

If locking does become a problem, it may make sense to switch instead to 
a lockless algorithm of some sort...

Chris
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