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    [PATCH] sched: increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ · b47e8608
    Ingo Molnar authored
    increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ that adds a small amount of
    over-balancing: to help distribute CPU-bound tasks more fairly on SMP
    systems.
    
    the problem of unfair balancing was noticed and reported by Tong N Li.
    
    10 CPU-bound tasks running on 8 CPUs, v2.6.23-rc1:
    
      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
     2572 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R  100  0.0   1:03.61 loop
     2578 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R  100  0.0   1:03.59 loop
     2576 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R  100  0.0   1:03.52 loop
     2571 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R  100  0.0   1:03.46 loop
     2569 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   99  0.0   1:03.36 loop
     2570 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   95  0.0   1:00.55 loop
     2577 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   50  0.0   0:31.88 loop
     2574 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   50  0.0   0:31.87 loop
     2573 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   50  0.0   0:31.86 loop
     2575 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   50  0.0   0:31.86 loop
    
    v2.6.23-rc1 + patch:
    
      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
     2681 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   85  0.0   3:51.68 loop
     2688 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   81  0.0   3:46.35 loop
     2682 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   80  0.0   3:43.68 loop
     2685 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   80  0.0   3:45.97 loop
     2683 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   80  0.0   3:40.25 loop
     2679 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   80  0.0   3:33.53 loop
     2680 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   79  0.0   3:43.53 loop
     2686 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   79  0.0   3:39.31 loop
     2687 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   78  0.0   3:33.31 loop
     2684 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   77  0.0   3:27.52 loop
    
    so they now nicely converge to the expected 80% long-term CPU usage.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    b47e8608
sched.h 56 KB