Re: [RFC] Fair-user scheduler

["Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>]

Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> Current Linux CPU scheduler doesnt recognize process aggregates while
> allocating bandwidth. As a result of this, an user could simply spawn large 
> number of processes and get more bandwidth than others.
> 
> Here's a patch that provides fair allocation for all users in a system.
> 
> Some benchmark numbers with and without the patch applied follows:
> 
> 
> 		 	user "vatsa"		    user "guest"
> 		    (make -s -j4 bzImage)      (make -s -j20 bzImage)
> 
> 2.6.20-rc5		472.07s (real)		   257.48s (real)
> 2.6.20-rc5+fairsched	766.74s (real)		   766.73s (real)

As Kirill brought up, why does it take so much more time?  Are you 
thrashing the cache?

> 	- breaks O(1) (ouch!)
> 		Best way to avoid this is to split runqueue to be per-user and
> 		per-cpu, which I have not implemented to keep the patch simple.

Presumably this would be made generic, as in per-"group" rather than per 
user?

> 	- Fairsched aware SMP load balance NOT addressed (yet)

This is kind of important, no?

Chris