From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dynamic sched timeslices
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:40:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040315154042.40c58c5b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040315230950.GB4452@tpkurt.garloff.de>
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > I remember we had a more complete patch to allow tuning the scheduler
> > through sysctls in -mm once, though. Questions is why that one wasn't
> > merged and if the same reasons apply to a 'light' version.
>
> Hmm, I fail to remember unfortunately. Probably it had too many knobs.
> Andrew?
It had a zillion knobs, and was mainly for developers.
Your patch didn't come with any subjective or measured testing results. In
theory, the scheduler should magically tune itself to the current workload.
If your patch is indeed necessary then this may point at a bug in the
current CPU scheduler.
Please tell us more...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-15 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-15 22:42 Kurt Garloff
2004-03-15 22:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-15 23:09 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-15 23:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-16 11:36 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-16 13:13 ` Con Kolivas
2004-03-16 14:29 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-16 20:45 ` Con Kolivas
2004-03-18 0:20 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-18 0:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 3:38 ` Con Kolivas
2004-03-16 15:03 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-16 15:08 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-23 9:23 ` Pavel Machek
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