Reconsidering the scheduler's wake_wide() heuristic

Posted Aug 3, 2017 12:40 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Reconsidering the scheduler's wake_wide() heuristic by nix
Parent article: Reconsidering the scheduler's wake_wide() heuristic

> I agree that one must be very careful not to come up with an algorithm that benefits an MPI-like loads-of-communicating-processes model if it penalizes the much more common "two tasks chattering frequently" model.

Maybe we could slim that heuristic down to “anything added to the scheduler should not further widen MuQSS's advantage”? :-)