Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-12T19:37:05Z

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 08:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So "good fairness" really should involve some notion of "work done for
> others". It's just not very easy to do..

A solution that is already in demand is a class based scheduler, where
the thread doing work for a client (temp.) joins the class of the
client.

The in-kernel virtualization guys also want to have this, for pretty
much the same reasons.

Peter