In message <Pine.LNX.4.40.0201121237110.1559-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> 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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