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

Suresh Jayaraman
2009-12-04T11:42:20Z

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?

http://osdir.com/ml/linux-kernel/2009-09/msg03406.html
In the thread above Ingo mentions about a few features and my
understanding is that some of these might favour one type of workload
than other. Is this not true anymore?

Thanks,

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Suresh Jayaraman