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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:59:36 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> In that sense 'fairness' is not global (and in fact it is almost 
> _never_ a global property, as X runs under root uid [*]), it is only 
> the most lowlevel scheduling machinery that can then be built upon. 
> [...]

perhaps a more fitting term would be 'precise group-scheduling'. Within 
the lowest level task group entity (be that thread group or uid group, 
etc.) 'precise scheduling' is equivalent to 'fairness'.

	Ingo