On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:09:19PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:14:58AM -0700, Li, Tong N wrote: > > is represented by a weight of 10. Inside the group, let's say the two > > tasks, P1 and P2, have weights 1 and 2. Then the system-wide weight for > > P1 is 10/3 and the weight for P2 is 20/3. In essence, this flattens > > weights into one level without changing the shares they represent. > > What do these task weights control? Timeslice primarily? If so, I am not > sure how well it can co-exist with cfs then (unless you are planning to > replace cfs with a equally good interactive/fair scheduler :)
It's called SD. From Con Kolivas that got it right the first time around :) > I would be very interested if this weight calculation can be used for > smpnice based load balancing purposes too .. bill - 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/
