* William Lee Irwin III <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:03:58PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > I have been brooding over how fair clock is computed/used in
> > CFS and thought I would ask the experts to avoid wrong guesses!
> > As I understand, fair_clock is a monotonously increasing clock which
> > advances at a pace inversely proportional to the load on the runqueue.
> > If load = 1 (task), it will advance at same pace as wall clock, as
> > load increases it advances slower than wall clock.
> > In addition, following calculations depend on fair clock: task's wait
> > time on runqueue and sleep time outside the runqueue (both reflected in
> > p->wait_run_time).
>
> It's not hard to see that that's a mistake. [...]
please clarify - exactly what is a mistake? Thanks,
Ingo
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