On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:59:02PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:32:56PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> I'm already working with this as my assumed nice semantics (actually
> >> something with a specific exponential base, suggested in other emails)
> >> until others start saying they want something different and agree.
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:39:09PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Good. This has a couple nice mathematical properties, including
> > "bounded unfairness" which I mentioned earlier. What base are you
> > looking at?
>
> I'm working with the following suggestion:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:07:49AM -0400, James Bruce wrote:
> > Nonlinear is a must IMO. I would suggest X = exp(ln(10)/10) ~= 1.2589
> > That value has the property that a nice=10 task gets 1/10th the cpu of a
> > nice=0 task, and a nice=20 task gets 1/100 of nice=0. I think that
> > would be fairly easy to explain to admins and users so that they can
> > know what to expect from nicing tasks.
>
> I'm not likely to write the testcase until this upcoming weekend, though.
So that means there's a 10000:1 ratio between nice 20 and nice -19. In
that sort of dynamic range, you're likely to have non-trivial
numerical accuracy issues in integer/fixed-point math.
(Especially if your clock is jiffies-scale, which a significant number
of machines will continue to be.)
I really think if we want to have vastly different ratios, we probably
want to be looking at BATCH and RT scheduling classes instead.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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