On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:09:19PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > 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 :) > I would be very interested if this weight calculation can be used for > smpnice based load balancing purposes too ..
Task weights represent shares of CPU bandwidth. If task i has weight w_i then its share of CPU bandwidth is intended to be w_i/sum_i w_i. "Load weight" seems to be used more in the scheduler source. -- wli - 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/
