Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler, -G1, 2.5.2-pre10, 2.4.17 (fwd)

[Rusty Russell]

In message <[e-mail]> y
ou write:
> > Aside from the cache utilization, this is not really "fair" -- the
> > problem is, the current design of load_balance (which is quite good)
> > just won't throw the tasks around so readily.  What could be done --
> > cleanly -- to make this better?
> 
> My opinion is: if it can be solved with no more than 20 lines of code
> let's do it, otherwise let's see what kind of catastrophe will happen by
> allowing such behavior.

Agree.  Anyone who really has 3 CPU hogs on a 2 CPU machine, *and*
never runs two more tasks to perturb the system, *and* notices that
one runs twice the speed of the other two, *and* cares about fairness
(ie. not RC5 etc), feel free to Email abuse to me.  Not Ingo, he has
real work to do 8)

Cheers!
Rusty.
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