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Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> this incremental patch (over your O(1) CPU time patch) makes
> nice levels work again, though they are fairly steep now:
> 
> This might be a decent basis for an O(1) per-user fair
> scheduler, after some more balancing and cleaning up of
> excess code.

Hi Rik,

Your changes look reasonable. I will give them a try.

I'm hoping to get back to playing with scheduler fairness
patchs soon.  I made the mistake of starting a re-write of
Posix timers so it may be a few more days.

If anyone else is trying to follow this my patch is
archive here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103508412423719&w=2

Jim Houston - Concurrent Computer Corp.