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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.16-rc6 patch] remove sleep_avg multiplier
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:56:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060314095654.GA8756@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142329861.9710.16.camel@homer>


* Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> The patchlet below removes the sleep_avg multiplier.  This multiplier
> was necessary back when we had 10 seconds of dynamic range in sleep_avg,
> but now that we only have one second, it causes that one second to be
> compressed down to 100ms in some cases.  This is particularly noticeable
> when compiling a kernel in a slow NFS mount, and I believe it to be a
> very likely candidate for other recently reported network related
> interactivity problems.
> 
> In testing, I can detect no negative impact of this removal.  IMHO, this
> constitutes a bug-fix, and as such is suitable for 2.6.16.
> 
> 	-Mike
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>

looks good to me. The biggest complaint against the current scheduler is 
over-eager interactivity boosting - this patch moderates that in a 
smooth way.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-14  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-14  9:51 [2.6.16-rc6 patch] remove sleep_avg multiplier Mike Galbraith
2006-03-14  9:56 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-03-14 10:05   ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-14 10:10     ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-14 11:56       ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-14 12:07         ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-14 12:24           ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-14 12:29             ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-14 12:36               ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-14 12:40               ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-14 12:47                 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-14 12:59                   ` Mike Galbraith

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