[Bug 100771] When activating ignore_nice_load with governor ondemand performance drops for normal processes.

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--- Comment #7 from Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> ---
(In reply to calvaris from comment #6)
> (In reply to Chen Yu from comment #5)
> > Do you mean idle tasks = task_b in above context? Why task_b slows down the
> > normal priority task is because that, the cpufreq decrease due to task_b's
> > high nice value, and task_a is scheduled on the same cpu.
> 
> Yes, I understand that it's what's happenning and I think that is what
> shouldn't happen because, IMHO, it doesn't make sense. I think it should be
> exactly the opposite, as an idle task is scheduled on the same cpu as a
> higher priority one, it should be run at the frequency of the higher one.

Well, currently the cpufreq framework is based on the total load of one CPU,
but not on single task/or a group of tasks. According to your requirement, it
looks like a 'cgroup' cpufreq scheduling. It would be of another new semantic
IMO.

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