Re: [PATCH] Load balancing problem in 2.6.2-mm1

[Timothy Miller]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Can we keep current behaviour default, and if arches want to
> override it they can? And if someone one day does testing to
> show it really isn't a good idea, then we can change the default.
>
> I like to try stick to the fairness first approach.
>
> We got quite a few complaints about unfairness when the
> scheduler used to keep 2 on one cpu and 1 on another, even in
> development kernels. I suspect that most wouldn't have known
> one way or the other if only top showed 66% each, but still.


Stupid question:  Does the balancing consider process priority?  Is it 
unfair to have two lower pri tasks always on one cpu while the highest 
pri of the three is always by itself?

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