Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: fix GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dependency | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:12:46 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 17:12 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > On 12/04/2009 04:38 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 15:50 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > >> > >> I think originally introduced as a development/debugging facility, > >> sched_features is slowly transforming into a viable tool for System > >> Administrators, by looking at the impact of turning on/off some of these > >> features on some workloads (especially non-desktop workloads). And I > >> think these benefits should be passed on to the end users perhaps in the > >> form of documentation. > > > > This is really not meant to be used in that context. Its purely a debug > > feature, with knobs coming and going as we see fit. > > > > Does this also mean these features should not impact any specific > workload much?
Not at all. Most loads will be heavily affected by one or more features.
-Mike
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