Linux: CFS Scheduler v19, Group Scheduling

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 7, 2007 3:11 PM EDT
KernelTrap; By Jeremy Andrews
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Ingo Molnar released version 19 of his CFS scheduler patchset, first released back in April. He noted: "The biggest user-visible change in -v19 is reworked sleeper fairness: it's similar in behavior to -v18 but works more consistently across nice levels. Fork-happy workloads (like kernel builds) should behave better as well. There are also a handful of speedups: unsigned math, 32-bit speedups, O(1) task pickup, debloating and other micro-optimizations."

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