Re: [patch] sched-2.5.59-A2

Ingo Molnar
2003-01-20T16:45:08Z

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> I think we definitely need to tune this on a per-arch basis. There's no
> way that one-size-fits-all is going to fit a situation as complex as
> this (though we can definitely learn from each other's analysis).

agreed - although the tunable should be constant (if possible, or
boot-established but not /proc exported), and there should be as few
tunables as possible. We already tune some of our scheduler behavior to
the SMP cachesize. (the cache_decay_ticks SMP logic.)

Ingo