* Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] The timeslices of tasks (i.e. the time they spend on a CPU > > without scheduling away) is _not_ maintained directly in CFS as a > > per-task variable that can be "cleared", it's not the metric that > > drives scheduling. Yes, of course CFS too "slices up CPU time", but > > those slices are not the per-task variables of traditional > > schedulers and cannot be 'cleared'. > > It's not about this comment alone, but this comment plus "no notion" > comment, which appears in sched-design-CFS.txt too.
ok - i've re-read it and it indeed is somewhat confusing without additional context. I'll improve the wording. (sched-design-CFS.txt needs an update anyway) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/