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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	efault@gmx.de, tingy@cs.umass.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fair clock use in CFS
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:52:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070514112259.GC28348@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070514110500.GV19966@holomorphy.com>

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:05:00AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The variability in ->fair_clock advancement rate was the mistake, at
> least according to my way of thinking. The queue's virtual time clock
> effectively stops under sufficiently high load, possibly literally in
> the event of fixpoint underflow. 

[snip]

> Basically it needs to move closer to EEVDF in these respects.

Doesn't EEVDF have the same issue? From the paper:

	V(t) = 1/(w1 + w2 + ...wn)

-- 
Regards,
vatsa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-14  8:33 fair clock use in CFS Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-05-14 10:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-14 10:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-14 11:05     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-14 11:22       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2007-05-14 11:20         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-14 12:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-14 23:57             ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-14 20:20           ` Ting Yang
2007-05-14 11:50       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-14 14:31         ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-14 15:02           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-05-14 15:08           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-15  2:59           ` David Schwartz
2007-05-14 21:24         ` Ting Yang
2007-05-15  0:57           ` Ting Yang
2007-05-14 23:23         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-14 11:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-14 13:04   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-05-14 13:15     ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-14 15:02 Al Boldi

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