Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-15T19:35:44Z

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:20:46PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> so Linus was right: this was caused by scheduler starvation. I can see
> one immediate problem already: the 'nice offset' is not divided by
> nr_running as it should. The patch below should fix this but i have yet
> to test it accurately, this change might as well render nice levels
> unacceptably ineffective under high loads.

I've been suggesting testing CPU bandwidth allocation as influenced by
nice numbers for a while now for a reason.

-- wli