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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] fix o(1) handling of threads
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:32:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212301732.21500.tomlins@cam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1041288608.13956.173.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On December 30, 2002 05:50 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> Very interesting, but I'll note there are actually two groupings to
> solve - per user and per threadgroup. Also for small numbers of threads
> you don't want to punish a task and ruin its balancing across CPUs

This easily tuneable.  As its set now 2 in queue threads from the
same group are not punished, 3 and they have their timeslices halfed.
Setting THREAD_PENALTY to 65 means no adjustments till 4 in queue threads
exist.

> Have you looked at the per user fair share stuff too ?

No but a varient of the same code could be cooked up - interested?.  As 
I am the only real user here is not much of an issue.  Anyone have
boxes that can be used to test per user throttles?

Ed Tomlinson 


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-30 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-30 21:45 [PATCH,RFC] fix o(1) handling of threads Ed Tomlinson
2002-12-30 22:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-30 22:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-30 22:32   ` Ed Tomlinson [this message]
2002-12-31 14:33   ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-01 13:02     ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-03  0:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-01-03 12:50         ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-12-30 23:00 ` David Schwartz
2002-12-31  4:03   ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-12-31  4:45     ` Rik van Riel

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