Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 batch scheduling, HT aware

[Con Kolivas]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:11, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I think this patch is much too ugly to get into such an elegant scheduler.
> No fault to you Con because its an ugly problem.

You're too kind. No it's ugly because of my code but it works for now.

> How about this: if a task is "delta" priority points below a task running
> on another sibling, move it to that sibling (so priorities via timeslice
> start working). I call it active unbalancing! I might be able to make it
> fit if there is interest. Other suggestions?

I discussed this with Ingo and that's the sort of thing we thought of. Perhaps 
a relative crossover of 10 dynamic priorities and an absolute crossover of 5 
static priorities before things got queued together. This is really only 
required for the UP HT case.

Con

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