From: Jacques Gelinas (jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca)
Date: Tue 23 Oct 2001 - 22:06:23 BST
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:32:11 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jacques Gelinas wrote:
>
> > + sched
> >
> > This changes the way priority is calculated for processes in a
> > vserver. The priority is kind of aglomerated. A vserver running 50
> > active processes will have a same impact on the server as if it was
> > running a single process (roughly).
>
> Arghhhhh, this changes the scheduler's _fast path_, not fun.
>
> Should I port my fairsched patch to a newer 2.4 kernel and
> add vserver support for it ? My approach only changes the
> priority recalculation in the scheduler and achieves pretty
> much the same effect _without_ needing to change goodness().
I am open to that. The effect we want to achieve is to have on vserver not taking
all the machine for itself. So it does not have to be 100% fair.
What is the impact of this goodness change btw ? Does the division is causing
some evil effect ?
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Jacques Gelinas <jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca>
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