Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
* Peter Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
This patch implements a prototype version of a simplified interactive
bonus mechanism. The mechanism does not attempt to identify
interactive tasks and give them a bonus (like the current mechanism
does) but instead attacks the problem that the bonuses are supposed to
fix, unacceptable interactive latency, directly.
i think we could give this one a workout in -mm, to see the actual
effects. Would you mind to merge this to -mm's scheduler queue, to right
after sched-add-sched_batch-policy.patch?
i have done this for latest -mm, see the patch below (i also merged your
patch to the SCHED_BATCH patch's effects), but the resulting kernel has
really bad interactivity: e.g. simply starting 4 CPU hogs on a 2-CPU
system slows down shell commands like 'ls' noticeably. So NACK for the
time being.
I've just realized a more serious reason why this scheduler modification
needs to be postponed as unsuitable for general use. It essentially
relies on sched_clock() having at least microsecond resolution and it
has been pointed out to me that on some systems this isn't true and,
even though its units are always nanoseconds, the resolution of
sched_clock() can be large as 1/HZ. This scheduler would not work very
well on these systems so its time has not yet come regardless of
successful resolution of the other problems.
Nevertheless, I'll add a scheduler based on ingosched with this
modification (and fixes) to PlugSched so that progress can be made on
improving it for those systems where it is feasible.
Peter
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