Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Improve fairness of cpu allocation for task groups

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The current load balancing scheme isn't good for group fairness.

> ---
>  include/linux/sched.h |    4 
>  kernel/sched.c        |  292 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  kernel/sched_fair.c   |   95 ++++++++++------
>  kernel/sched_rt.c     |    2 
>  kernel/sysctl.c       |   16 ++
>  5 files changed, 348 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

i'm leaning towards making this v2.6.25 material, as it affects the 
non-group-scheduling bits too and is rather large. When i tested it, 
group scheduling worked pretty well - at least for CPU bound tasks - and 
on SMP too. Could we live with what we have for now and defer this patch 
to v2.6.25? If not, could you split up this patch in a way to defer all 
the FAIR_GROUP_SCHED relevant changes to a separate patch which will not 
affect the !FAIR_GROUP_SCHED case at all? That will make the case much 
clearer.

	Ingo
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