* Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ack. And what of the suggestion to try to ensure that a yielding task
> simply not end up as the very next one chosen to run? Maybe by
> swapping it with another (adjacent?) task in the tree if it comes out
> on top again?
we did that too for quite some time in CFS - it was found to be "not
agressive enough" by some folks and "too agressive" by others. Then when
people started bickering over this we added these two simple corner
cases - switchable via a flag. (minimum agression and maximum agression)
> (I really don't know the proper terminology to use here, but hopefully
> Ingo can translate that).
the terminology you used is perfectly fine.
> Thanks Ingo -- I *really* like this scheduler!
heh, thanks :) For which workload does it make the biggest difference
for you? (and compared to what other scheduler you used before? 2.6.22?)
Ingo
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