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Big question: CFS
Posted by mcortese on Wed 9 Jul 2008 at 18:12
I have a couple of those 'Big Questions' I would really like to find the 'Ultimate Answer' to.
One is related to the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) that was merged into our beloved kernel not without a great deal of discussion.
Is this innovative scheduler really delivering the higher performance that its author promised? Does it grant a better feeling to a desktop's users? Are a server's requests served in a better way, from a client's perspective?
To put it in simpler words: at the end of the day, is being fair definitely a Good Thing to the final user?
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http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/9/17/261647
I doubt most folks will notice.
Theoretically machines with a lot of tasks could spend more time computing which one to run.
You can always pick a different scheduler - this isn't Microsoft Windows...
I doubt most folks will notice.
Theoretically machines with a lot of tasks could spend more time computing which one to run.
You can always pick a different scheduler - this isn't Microsoft Windows...
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