Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: avoid huge bonus to sleepers on busymachines

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 07:37:28 EST


On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 13:30 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Any diddling of sleeper fairness would have to be accompanied with a
> preemption model change methinks.

Just told jays the exact same thing on IRC ;-)

Also, workloads are interesting, the signal test thing is the easiest to
test the preemption side, various things like QPID show the down-side
iirc.

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