Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:25:12 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS |
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Li, Tong N wrote: > On the other hand, if locking does > become a problem for certain systems/workloads, increasing > sysctl_base_round_slice can reduce the locking frequency and alleviate > the problem, at the cost of being relatively less fair across the CPUs.
If locking does become a problem, it may make sense to switch instead to a lockless algorithm of some sort...
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