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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Markus Törnqvist" <mjt@nysv.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, AndrewMorton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] implement nice support across physical cpus on SMP
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:56:15 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505111256.15498.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17023.63512.319555.552924@fisica.ufpr.br>

On Tue, 10 May 2005 09:54 am, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Con Kolivas (kernel@kolivas.org) wrote on 9 May 2005 21:47:
>  >Perhaps if I make the prio_bias multiplied instead of added to the cpu
>  > load it will be less affected by SCHED_LOAD_SCALE. The attached patch
>  > was confirmed during testing to also provide smp distribution according
>  > to nice on 4x.
>
> It seems to work. I've tested it for a few hours on the same machine
> and the 2 nice 0 processes take the bulk of the cpu time, while that
> cpu bound program running at nice 19 takes only about 7%.
>
> Maybe it's a bit early to say it's fine, but it does semm much better
> than before, so I think it should go into the tree.
>
> Thanks a lot!

My pleasure. Thanks for testing.

I'll roll up these patches for rc4 and make smp nice balancing a config option 
for ultimate flexibility.

Cheers,
Con

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-11  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-07 13:42 [PATCH] implement nice support across physical cpus on SMP Con Kolivas
2005-05-07 17:59 ` Carlos Carvalho
2005-05-07 21:45   ` Con Kolivas
2005-05-09 11:24 ` Markus   Törnqvist
2005-05-09 11:28   ` [ck] " Markus   Törnqvist
2005-05-09 11:47   ` Con Kolivas
2005-05-09 18:55     ` Markus   Törnqvist
2005-05-09 23:54     ` Carlos Carvalho
2005-05-11  2:56       ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2005-05-11  3:04       ` [SMP NICE] [PATCH 1/2] SCHED: Implement " Con Kolivas
2005-05-11  3:05         ` [SMP NICE] [PATCH 2/2] SCHED: Make SMP nice a config option Con Kolivas
2005-05-11  7:20           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-05-12 10:49             ` Con Kolivas
2005-05-16 11:33         ` [SMP NICE] [PATCH] SCHED: Implement nice support across physical cpus on SMP Con Kolivas
2005-05-16 18:31           ` Markus   Törnqvist
2005-05-17 13:39           ` Carlos Carvalho
2005-05-18 11:30             ` Markus   Törnqvist
2005-05-18 13:45               ` Con Kolivas
2005-05-21  5:00                 ` Con Kolivas
2005-05-23  9:28                   ` [PATCH] SCHED: change_prio_bias_only_if_queued Con Kolivas
2005-05-23 10:07                     ` [PATCH] SCHED: account_rt_tasks_in_prio_bias Con Kolivas

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