Re: Question about fair schedulers

[Alberto Gonzalez <info@gnebu.es>]

On Saturday 23 June 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 12:45:30PM +0200, Alberto Gonzalez wrote:
> > Ok, so if I understand correctly, the problem I had in my simple test
> > will be solved by distributions once a fair scheduler goes into mainline?
>
> No, there is no reason to wait for a fair scheduler at all. A *desktop*
> distro *must* take process priorities into account, otherwise it's broken
> by design.

Well, right now with the mainline scheduler it works fine. The player gets 
more CPU time than the encoder. It was when I switched to -ck kernel (with a 
fair scheduler) that it didn't work correctly, that's why I asked about 
this "fair" concept in the first place.

I guess once a fair scheduler goes mainline they will adapt things to work 
correctly again.

> Regards,
> Willy

Cheers,
Alberto.