Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 :-)

[Peter Williams]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 December 2005 22:13, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
>
> > Hello Con,
> >
> > Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 6:52:09 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > > I missed this announcement (been on leave for a while). This SCHED_BATCH
> > > implementation is by Ingo and it it is not "idle" scheduling as I have
> > > implemented in the staircase scheduler. This is just to restrict a task
> > > to not having any interactive bonus at any stage and to have predictable
> > > scheduling behaviour I guess.
> >
> > Thanks a lot. That's good anyway.
> >
> > If I understand correctly, if Ingo's version gets merged with linus' tree
> > your implementions of SCHED_BATCH in -ck will be replacing the one from
> > Ingo.
>
>
> Yes. SCHED_BATCH in Ingo's implementation is more like turning off the 
> interactive setting in staircase, and the idle scheduling staircase offers is 
> extremely useful.
>
>
> > A silly question. Is SCHED_BATCH-kind-of-thing a standard in Unices or
> > general operating system engineering know-how? Or is this concept only
> > available for Linux?
>
>
> Fairly standard in Unices but prone to all sorts of priority inversion 
> starvation scenarios so very few implement it. In freebsd for example you can 
> use their idle scheduling only if you are root to prevent this starvation - 
> which kind of makes it useless in practice. My implementation is fairly 
> robust at avoiding the priority inversion problem - at least I haven't seen a 
> bug report about it for years since I address it :)

FYI, the 6.1.6 version of PlugSched for 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 that I announced 
yesterday applies the same SCHED_BATCH semantics as Ingo's patch to the 
ingosched, nicksched, zaphod and spa_ws schedulers (i.e. it suppresses 
interactive bonuses for tasks in the SCHED_BATCH policy class).  As 
spa_no_frills and spa_svr do not have interactive bonuses there is no 
change to their semantics.  The staircase scheduler in PlugSched will be 
updated to the same SCHED_BATCH as the stand alone version in due course.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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