Re: A nice CPU resource controller

From: Peter Grandi
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 14:23:59 EST


>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:14:13 +0200, Martin Ohlin
>>> <martin.ohlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

martin.ohlin> To those interested I have been working on a CPU
martin.ohlin> resource controller using the nice value as a
martin.ohlin> control signal. At the moment, the control is done
martin.ohlin> on a per-task-level, but I have plans to extend it
martin.ohlin> to groups of tasks. [ ... ]

This reminds me of fair share schedulers, which were popular
some decades ago on mainframes and early UNIX systems.

* G. J. Henry "The fair share scheduler AT&T", Bell
Lab.Tech. J. 1845-1857 63, 8 (Oct.).

* Judy Kay, Piers Lauder "A Fair Share Scheduler CACM", 31:1,
44-55 January 1988. <http://WWW.CS.USyd.edu.AU/~piers/>

* %A J. Larmouth
%T Scheduling for a share of the machine
%J SPE
%V 5
%N 1
%D JAN 1975
%P 29-49
%X <URL:http://WWW.CL.Cam.ac.UK/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-2.pdf>

* %A J. Larmouth
%T Scheduling for immediate turnround
%J SPE
%V 8
%D 1978
%P 559-578
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