the attached patch fixes the EXIT_WEIGHT code to only 'punish' tasks,
never reward them. (it would be a way too easy method to boost CPU hogs
unfairly via starting up bogus threads that exit() after a few seconds.)
Ingo
diff -rNu linux/kernel/exit.c linux/kernel/exit.c
--- linux/kernel/exit.c Mon Jan 28 15:23:50 2002
+++ linux/kernel/exit.c Mon Jan 28 15:24:43 2002
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@
current->time_slice += p->time_slice;
if (current->time_slice > MAX_TIMESLICE)
current->time_slice = MAX_TIMESLICE;
- current->sleep_avg = (current->sleep_avg*EXIT_WEIGHT + p->sleep_avg) /
- (EXIT_WEIGHT + 1);
+ if (p->sleep_avg < current->sleep_avg)
+ current->sleep_avg = (current->sleep_avg * EXIT_WEIGHT +
+ p->sleep_avg) / (EXIT_WEIGHT + 1);
__restore_flags(flags);
p->pid = 0;
-
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