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

Nick Piggin
2007-04-21T07:39:34Z

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:27PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >( Lets be cautious though: the jury is still out whether people actually
> > like this more than the current approach. While CFS feedback looks
> > promising after a whopping 3 days of it being released [ ;-) ], the
> > test coverage of all 'fairness centric' schedulers, even considering
> > years of availability is less than 1% i'm afraid, and that < 1% was
> > mostly self-selecting. )
> >
> All of my testing has been on desktop machines, although in most cases
> they were really loaded desktops which had load avg 10..100 from time to
> time, and none were low memory machines. Up to CFS v3 I thought
> nicksched was my winner, now CFSv3 looks better, by not having stumbles
> under stupid loads.

What base_timeslice were you using for nicksched, and what HZ?