Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v12

[Chris Friesen]

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> CFS is fair even on SMP. Consider for example the worst-case 
> 3-tasks-on-2-CPUs workload on a 2-CPU box:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2658 mingo     20   0  1580  248  200 R   67  0.0   0:56.30 loop
>  2656 mingo     20   0  1580  252  200 R   66  0.0   0:55.55 loop
>  2657 mingo     20   0  1576  248  200 R   66  0.0   0:55.24 loop
>
> 66% of CPU time for each task. The 'TIME+' column shows a 2% spread 
> between the slowest and the fastest loop after just 1 minute of runtime 
> (and the spread gets narrower with time).

Is there a way in CFS to tune the amount of time over which the load 
balancer is fair?  (Of course there would be some overhead involved.)

Chris
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