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

Ingo Molnar
2007-04-18T18:00:19Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> In that sense 'fairness' is not global (and in fact it is almost
> _never_ a global property, as X runs under root uid [*]), it is only
> the most lowlevel scheduling machinery that can then be built upon.
> [...]

perhaps a more fitting term would be 'precise group-scheduling'. Within
the lowest level task group entity (be that thread group or uid group,
etc.) 'precise scheduling' is equivalent to 'fairness'.

Ingo