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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #586

Comment 586 for bug 620074

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In , funtoos (funtoos-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

The in-kernel process scheduler is generally crap. Ok, make that majorly crap. Move away from it. Use BFS (search Con Kolivas) if you want sanity. Someone recently posted a simple test case where heavy kernel space starves the user space processes to death. The person switched to BFS and all his troubles went away. Nobody replied to him on the list. I don't think even Ingo knows what's wrong with CFS. So, don't have your hopes of ever seeing this fixed.

Here is the user space starvation thread I am talking about:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/7/448