Re: small doubt about fair-scheduler patch

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 15:16:01 EST


On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Kurt Johnson wrote:

> Im using your fair scheduler patch (2.4.19-fairsched),

> Without the fairsched patch, ps output is normal, eg,
> init is always the first process listed,

> Im just wondering, is this
> purely aesthetically or is there something fishy?

The fairsched patch reorders processes on the tasklist so
that the processes of a user all get CPU time alternately.

It's just a cosmetic issue, caused by the fact that procfs
walks that same list to display all the tasks and now that
list can get reordered ...

regards,

Rik

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