From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Cc: kernel@kolivas.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dynamic sched timeslices
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:32:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040317163214.16c943c5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040318002027.GO20121@tpkurt.garloff.de>
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Con,
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:45:02AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > That's why I think we should offer the tunables.
> >
> > If your workload is so dedicated to just number crunching it isn't hard to add
> > a zero to maximum timeslice in kernel/sced.c.
>
> Of course I can compile a custom kernel for myself and tune all sorts of
> things. But this is not the way most Linux users want to use Linux any
> more. Actually that's a long time ago.
>
I don't think we should be averse to offering a couple of nice high-level
scheduler tunables. But I do think we should have testing results which
clearly show that they provide some benefit, and we should agree that the
scheduler cannot provide the same benefit automagically.
Apologies in advance if we've seen those testing results and I missed it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-18 0:32 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
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 [this message]
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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