Re: [RFC patch] CFS fix place entity spread issue (v2)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> Degradation of this particular workload is expected, because the nature of the
> large CFS spread issue favors Xorg: it gets litterally minutes of available
> vruntime, while most other threads (e.g. kernel build, audio playing, etc..)
> suffer from this.

In that case, I think your patch is fundamentally incorrect.

I care a _whole_ lot more about "usable desktop" than I care about some 
inane "available vruntime". If the current behavior breaks your vruntime 
rules, then the current behaviour is clearly _correct_.

			Linus
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