Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

[Peter Williams]

Rogan Dawes wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
> > Rogan Dawes wrote:
> >
> > > I guess my point was if we somehow get to an odd number of 
> > > nanoseconds, we'd end up with rounding errors. I'm not sure if your 
> > > algorithm will ever allow that.
> >
> > And Ingo's point was that when it takes thousands of nanoseconds for a 
> > single context switch, an error of half a nanosecond is down in the 
> > noise.
> >
> > Chris
>
> My concern was that since Ingo said that this is a closed economy, with 
> a fixed sum/total, if we lose a nanosecond here and there, eventually 
> we'll lose them all.
>
> Some folks have uptimes of multiple years.
>
> Of course, I could (very likely!) be full of it! ;-)

And won't be using the any new scheduler on these computers anyhow as 
that would involve bringing the system down to install the new kernel. :-)

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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