Why do the CFS chase fairness?

[Parmenides]

2011/9/21 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>:
> Hi Permenides :)
>
> Looks like I made few typos here and there, so allow me to put few erratas :)
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>> 2011/9/20 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>:
>>> What the scheduler needs perhaps at this point is good priority
>>> recalculation is C could run ASAP. If not, even though C is in run
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> "recalculation so C could be executed ASAP. ......."
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>>> queue, it still can beat the other processes in the competition of CPU
>
> "...it could be beaten by other processes.."
>

Yes, even with enough timeslice, if C does not have high enough
priority, it can not preempt A or B. That's the point where priority
play its role when the scheduler prefer to IO-bound tasks. Thank you
again.