Bug#800945: linux-source-3.16: Scheduler prefers pinned tasks

2015-10-11 Thread paul . szabo
I believe the problem is solved. Please see discussion under http://marc.info/?t=14440821092&r=1&w=2 specifically the message http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=144459727213633&w=2 and quoting from there: I believe I have now solved the problem, simply by setting: ... for n in /proc

Bug#800945: linux-source-3.16: Scheduler prefers pinned tasks

2015-10-05 Thread Paul Szabo
Package: linux-source-3.16 Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 Severity: normal The Linux CFS scheduler prefers pinned tasks and unfairly gives more CPU time to tasks that have set CPU affinity. This effect is observed with or without CGROUP controls. To demonstrate: on an otherwise idle machine, as s