Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v7

From: Al Boldi
Date: Thu May 03 2007 - 09:45:44 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...] But I can still see these awful latency blips in the presence of
> > negatively niced chew.c at -10 and two chew.c's at nice 0. [...]
>
> of course: you asked for the two chew's to be treated like that and CFS
> delivered it! :-)
>
> nice -10 means the two chew's will get ~90+% of the CPU time, and all
> other nice 0 tasks will get <10% of CPU time.

Yes, but the latencies fluctuate wildly from 5ms to
sched_granularity_ns*1000. Isn't it possible to smooth this?


Thanks!

--
Al

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