From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CFS scheduler unfairly prefers pinned tasks
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:19:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151008111959.GM3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201510081054.t98AsL1U003456@como.maths.usyd.edu.au>
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 09:54:21PM +1100, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
> Good to see that you agree on the fairness issue... it MUST be fixed!
> CFS might be wrong or wasteful, but never unfair.
I've not yet had time to look at the case at hand, but there are wat is
called 'infeasible weight' scenarios for which it is impossible to be
fair.
Also, CFS must remain a practical scheduler, which places bounds on the
amount of weird cases we can deal with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-08 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-05 21:48 paul.szabo
2015-10-06 2:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-06 10:06 ` paul.szabo
2015-10-06 12:17 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-06 20:44 ` paul.szabo
2015-10-07 1:28 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-08 8:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-08 10:54 ` paul.szabo
2015-10-08 11:19 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-10-10 13:22 ` [patch] sched: disable task group re-weighting on the desktop Mike Galbraith
2015-10-10 14:03 ` kbuild test robot
2015-10-10 14:41 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-10 17:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-10 17:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-11 2:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-11 17:42 ` 4.3 group scheduling regression Mike Galbraith
2015-10-12 7:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-12 7:44 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-12 8:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-12 0:53 ` Yuyang Du
2015-10-12 9:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-12 2:12 ` Yuyang Du
2015-10-12 10:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-12 19:55 ` Yuyang Du
2015-10-13 4:08 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-12 20:42 ` Yuyang Du
2015-10-13 8:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-13 0:35 ` Yuyang Du
2015-10-13 8:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-13 0:37 ` Yuyang Du
2015-10-12 11:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-12 19:32 ` Yuyang Du
2015-10-13 8:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-13 2:22 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-12 8:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-10 20:14 ` [patch] sched: disable task group re-weighting on the desktop paul.szabo
2015-10-11 2:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-11 9:25 ` paul.szabo
2015-10-11 12:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-11 19:46 ` paul.szabo
2015-10-12 1:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-08 14:25 ` CFS scheduler unfairly prefers pinned tasks Mike Galbraith
2015-10-08 21:55 ` paul.szabo
2015-10-09 1:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-09 2:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-10-11 9:43 ` paul.szabo
2015-10-10 3:59 ` Wanpeng Li
2015-10-10 7:58 ` Wanpeng Li
2015-10-11 20:59 paul.szabo
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