Linux: Understanding the Completely Fair Scheduler

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 15, 2007 7:02 AM EDT
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"As I understand, fair_clock is a monotonously increasing clock which advances at a pace inversely proportional to the load on the run queue," Srivatsa Vaddagiri explained in a review of Ingo Molnar's CFS CPU scheduler, "if load = 1 (task), it will advance at same pace as wall clock, as load increases it advances slower than wall clock."

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