Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS

Li, Tong N wrote:

On the other hand, if locking does
become a problem for certain systems/workloads, increasing
sysctl_base_round_slice can reduce the locking frequency and alleviate

the problem, at the cost of being relatively less fair across the CPUs.

If locking does become a problem, it may make sense to switch instead to a lockless algorithm of some sort...

Chris
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