Re: Question about fair schedulers

[Paolo Ornati]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:07:15 +0200
Alberto Gonzalez <info@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My conclusion is that SD behaves as expected: it's more fair. But for a 
> desktop, shouldn't an "intelligently unfair" scheduler be better?

"intelligently unfair" is what the current scheduler is (because of
interactivity estimator).

When it works (say 90% of the time) the desktop feels really good...
but when it doesn't it can be a disaster.


Look this for example:

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/6aa5c93c379ae9e1/98ab31c0e6fed2ee?&hl=en#98ab31c0e6fed2ee

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	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.22-rc5-g0864a4e2 on x86_64
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