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From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler tunables?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:47:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <450D9831.20205@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158520745.6086.6.camel@Homer.simpson.net>

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Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 11:19 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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>> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:19 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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>>>> It looks like the scheduler tunables have been removed from 2.6
>>>> somewhere before 2.6.17. 
>>> Which tunables are you referring to?
>>>
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>> http://kerneltrap.org/node/525
>>
>> The relevant code changes in sysctl.h and sched.c seem to be undone.  Of
>> course I'm assuming my distribution didn't just add a side patch in at
>> the time when I noticed these existed so long ago.
> 
> Ah.  These knobs were never exported in a standard kernel.  I believe
> there was a patch recently (couple weeks ago?) posted to export them
> again for experimentation.  A search of the archives should turn it up.
> 

Nods.  May be good in environments where longer time slices could be a
significant performance enhancement.


> 	-Mike
> 
> 

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-17 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-16 23:19 Scheduler tunables? John Richard Moser
2006-09-17  9:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-09-17 15:19   ` John Richard Moser
2006-09-17 19:19     ` Mike Galbraith
2006-09-17 18:47       ` John Richard Moser [this message]

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