Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: fix GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dependency

Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-04T11:08:42Z

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.