Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [BENCHMARK] scheduler tunables with contest - prio_bonus_ratio | | From | Robert Love <> | | Date | 19 Dec 2002 19:15:06 -0500 |
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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
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