Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Peter Zijlstra
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Extend / fix 86bfbb7c ("sched/fair: Add lag based placement") by noting that lag is fundamentally a temporal measure. It should not be carried around indefinitely. OTOH it should also not be instantly discarded, doing so will allow a task to game the system by purposefully (micro) sleeping at the end of its time quantum. Since lag is intimately tied to the virtual time base, a wall-time based decay is also insufficient, notably competition is required for any of this to make sense. Instead, delay the dequeue and keep the 'tasks' on the runqueue, competing until they are eligible. Strictly speaking, we only care about keeping them until the 0-lag point, but that is a difficult proposition, instead carry them around until they get picked again, and dequeue them at that point. Signed-off-by:Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by:
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Tested-by: