Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

[Ingo Molnar]

* William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It does largely achieve the sort of fairness it set out for itself as 
> its design goal. One should also note that the queueing mechanism is 
> more than flexible enough to handle prioritization by a number of 
> different methods, and the large precision of its priorities is useful 
> there. So a rather broad variety of policies can be implemented by 
> changing the ->fair_key calculations.

yeah. Note that i concentrated on the bit that makes the largest 
interactivity improvement: to implement "precise scheduling" (a'ka 
complete fairness) between the 100+ user tasks that do a complex 
scheduling dance on a typical desktop on various workloads.

	Ingo
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