Re: fair clock use in CFS

[Ting Yang <tingy@cs.umass.edu>]

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> It is possible to do something like this in check_preemption ?
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>       delta = curr->fair_key - first->fair_key;
>
>       if (delta > ??? [scale it as you wish] ||
>            (curr->key > first->key) && (curr->wait_runtime > ??? 
> [simple funtion of curr->weight]) )
>              preempt
Forgive me, there is typo in the above check. It should be "less than" 
since we are controlling negative lags.

           (curr->key > first->key) && (curr->wait_runtime < ??? [simple 
funtion of curr->weight]) )

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> A limit control on wait_runtime may prevent a high weight task from 
> running for too long, so that others get executed a little earlier. 
> Just a thought :-)
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>
Ting