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On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 19:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > What Con said. When the scheduler makes an inappropriate decision, > shortening the timeslice minimises its impact. OK, I tried it. It does suck. I wonder why, though, because with the estimator off the scheduler should not be making "bad" decisions. > > But that in no way precludes not fixing what we have, because good > > algorithms should not require tuning for common cases. Period. > > hm. Good luck ;) > > This is a situation in which one is prepares to throw away some cycles > to achieve a desired effect. Well one option would be no algorithm at all :) But if you can find good values that make things run nice, then perhaps we just need to change the defaults. I think we should merge sched-tune.. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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