Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 22:30:02 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ting Yang <tingy@cs.umass.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8
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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:57:14PM -0400, Ting Yang wrote:
>  Authors of this paper proposed a scheduler: Earlist Eligible Virtual 
> Deadline First (EEVDF). EEVDF uses exactly the same method as CFS to 
> track the execution of each running task. The only difference between 
> EEVDF and CFS is that EEVDF tries to _deadline_ fair while CFS is 
> _start-time_ fair. Scheduling based on deadline gives better reponse 
> time bound and seems to more fair.
>  In the following part of this email, I will try to explain the 
> similarities and differences between EEVDF and CFS. Hopefully, this 
> might provide you with some useful information w.r.t your current work 
> on CFS.

Any chance you could write a patch to convert CFS to EEVDF? People may
have an easier time understanding code than theoretical explanations.
(I guess I could do it if sufficiently pressed.)


-- wli
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