Re: Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue May 15 2012 - 08:59:10 EST


On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 15:32 +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>
> Well, I don't plan to feed the load-balancer all this crap. What I'm thinking
> is take those N metrics, form a vector according to some (yet unknown) weighting
> factors, and schedule according to the vector value, and how it 'fits' to a
> virtual bin representing a core and it's environment.

Currently we only have a bit-vector and a retry loop. I suspect you can
make the multi-value vector map to a bit-vector if you can keep cpu wide
statistics to compare against as well.

We want to avoid having to do a full sort.

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