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To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS
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Chris Snook wrote:

>> We have another SMP box that would benefit from group scheduling, but 
>> we can't use it because the load balancer is not nearly good enough.

> Which scheduler?  Have you tried the CFS group scheduler patches?

CKRM as well.

Haven't tried the CFS group scheduler, as we're stuck on a way old 
kernel and I've been too busy to play with the new stuff.

Chris