Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760408AbXEVUtc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 16:49:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756844AbXEVUtY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 16:49:24 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:50945 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756592AbXEVUtX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 16:49:23 -0400 Message-ID: <46535747.4000203@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:49:11 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: William Lee Irwin III , Dmitry Adamushko , Peter Williams , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v12 References: <20070513153853.GA19846@elte.hu> <464A6698.3080400@bigpond.net.au> <20070516063625.GA9058@elte.hu> <464CE8FD.4070205@bigpond.net.au> <20070518071325.GB28702@elte.hu> <464DA61A.4040406@bigpond.net.au> <20070521082926.GH19966@holomorphy.com> <20070521085703.GA18755@elte.hu> <46531EF6.3020204@nortel.com> <20070522201518.GC6113@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070522201518.GC6113@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 May 2007 20:49:15.0079 (UTC) FILETIME=[A8A42570:01C79CB2] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 20 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Chris Friesen wrote: >>Is there a way in CFS to tune the amount of time over which the load >>balancer is fair? (Of course there would be some overhead involved.) > it should be fair pretty fast (see the 10 seconds run of massive_intr) - > so it's not 1 minute (if you were worried about that). Good to know..that's exactly what I was worried about. I work with guys that really want predictability above all else, then fairness, and only then performance--if we can't guarantee a given level of performance for 5-9s then its useless to us. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/