Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] Add group fairness to CFS

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:09:28AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
>> So what you're saying is that you think dynamic priority (or its 
>> equivalent) should be used for load balancing instead of static priority?
> 
> It doesn't do much in other schemes, but when fairness is directly
> measured by the dynamic priority, it is a priori more meaningful.
> This is not to say the net effect of using it is so different.

I suspect that while it's probably theoretically better it wouldn't make 
much difference on a real system (probably not enough to justify any 
extra complexity if there were any).  The exception might be on systems 
where there were lots of CPU intensive tasks that used relatively large 
chunks of CPU each time they were runnable which would give the load 
balancer a more stable load to try and balance.  It might be worth the 
extra effort to get it exactly right on those systems.  On most normal 
systems this isn't the case and the load balancer is always playing 
catch up to a constantly changing scenario.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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