Re: [PATCH] Load balancing problem in 2.6.2-mm1

Timothy Miller
2004-02-09T16:31:58Z

Nick Piggin wrote:

>
> Can we keep current behaviour default, and if arches want to
> override it they can? And if someone one day does testing to
> show it really isn't a good idea, then we can change the default.
>
> I like to try stick to the fairness first approach.
>
> We got quite a few complaints about unfairness when the
> scheduler used to keep 2 on one cpu and 1 on another, even in
> development kernels. I suspect that most wouldn't have known
> one way or the other if only top showed 66% each, but still.
>

Stupid question: Does the balancing consider process priority? Is it
unfair to have two lower pri tasks always on one cpu while the highest
pri of the three is always by itself?