* Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > >CFS is fair even on SMP. Consider for example the worst-case > >3-tasks-on-2-CPUs workload on a 2-CPU box: > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 2658 mingo 20 0 1580 248 200 R 67 0.0 0:56.30 loop > > 2656 mingo 20 0 1580 252 200 R 66 0.0 0:55.55 loop > > 2657 mingo 20 0 1576 248 200 R 66 0.0 0:55.24 loop > > > >66% of CPU time for each task. The 'TIME+' column shows a 2% spread > >between the slowest and the fastest loop after just 1 minute of runtime > >(and the spread gets narrower with time). > > Is there a way in CFS to tune the amount of time over which the load > balancer is fair? (Of course there would be some overhead involved.)
it should be fair pretty fast (see the 10 seconds run of massive_intr) - so it's not 1 minute (if you were worried about that). Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/