Re: [PATCH 08/15] sched,fair: simplify timeslice length code

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 08:41 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:

> > When tasks get their timeslice rounded up, that will increase
> > the total sched period in a similar way the old code did by
> > returning a longer period from __sched_period.
> 
> sched_slice is not a strict value and scheduler will not schedule out
> the task after the sched_slice (unless you enable HRTICK which is
> disable by default). Instead it will wait for next tick to change the
> running task
> 
> sched_slice is mainly use to ensure a minimum running time in a row.
> With this change, the running time of the high priority task will
> most
> probably be split in several slice instead of one

I would be more than happy to drop this patch if you
prefer. Just let me know.

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