Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and2.6.16-rc1-mm1

From: Paolo Ornati
Date: Mon Jan 23 2006 - 15:20:57 EST


On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:49:33 +1100
Peter Williams <pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > However, in spite of the above, the fairness mechanism should have been
> > able to generate enough bonus points to get dd's priority back to less
> > than 34. I'm still investigating why this didn't happen.
>
> Problem solved. It was a scaling issue during the calculation of
> expected delay. The attached patch should fix both the CPU hog problem
> and the fairness problem. Could you give it a try?
>

Mmmm... it doesn't work:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5516 paolo 34 0 115m 18m 2432 S 87.5 3.7 0:23.72 transcode
5530 paolo 34 0 51000 4472 1872 S 8.0 0.9 0:02.29 tcdecode
5523 paolo 34 0 19840 1088 880 R 2.0 0.2 0:00.21 tcdemux
5522 paolo 34 0 22156 1204 972 R 0.7 0.2 0:00.02 tccat
5539 paolo 34 0 4952 1468 372 D 0.7 0.3 0:00.04 dd
5350 root 28 0 167m 16m 3228 S 0.3 3.4 0:03.64 X

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5456 paolo 34 0 115m 18m 2432 D 63.9 3.7 0:48.21 transcode
5470 paolo 37 0 50996 4472 1872 R 6.2 0.9 0:05.20 tcdecode
5493 paolo 34 0 4952 1472 372 R 1.5 0.3 0:00.22 dd
5441 paolo 28 0 86656 21m 15m S 0.2 4.4 0:00.77 konsole
5468 paolo 34 0 19840 1088 880 S 0.2 0.2 0:00.23 tcdemux

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Paolo Ornati
Linux 2.6.16-rc1-plugsched on x86_64
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