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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:21:01 +0200
From: Martin Ohlin <martin.ohlin@control.lth.se>
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Balbir Singh wrote:

> The CKRM e-series is a PID based CPU Controller. It did a good job of
> controlling and smoothing out the load (and variations) and even
> worked with groups. But it achieved all this through some amount of
> complexity.

I have now downloaded and looked at the code you refer to. But as far as 
I can see, the PID controller is only used for load balancing between 
CPUs, not for controlling the bandwidth/time of individual tasks. Is 
this correct or did I miss something?

/Martin
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