On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:37:11AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I don't know how that supports your argument for unfairness,
I never had such an argument. I like fairness.
My argument is that -you- don't have an argument for making fairness a
-requirement-.
> processes are special only because that's how we've always done
> scheduling. I'm not precluding other groupings for fairness, though.
If you make one form of fairness a -requirement- for all acceptable
algorithms, your -are- precluding most other forms of fairness.
If you refuse to define what "fairness" means when specifying your
requirement, what's the point of requiring it?
> What do you mean optimal? If your criteria is fairness, then of course
> it is optimal. If your criteria is throughput, then it probably isn't.
I don't know what optimal behavior is. And neither do you. It may or
may not be fair. It very likely includes small deviations from fair.
> > [2] It's trivial to construct two or more perfectly reasonable and
> > desirable definitions of fairness that are mutually incompatible.
>
> Probably not if you use common sense, and in the context of a replacement
> for the 2.6 scheduler.
Ok, trivial example. You cannot allocate equal CPU time to
processes/tasks and simultaneously allocate equal time to thread
groups. Is it common sense that a heavily-threaded app should be able
to get hugely more CPU than a well-written app? No. I don't want Joe's
stupid Java app to make my compile crawl.
On the other hand, if my heavily threaded app is, say, a voicemail
server serving 30 customers, I probably want it to get 30x the CPU of
my gzip job.
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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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