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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: aim7 -30% regression in 2.6.24-rc1
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:58:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101085824.GA12721@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193826639.27652.113.camel@twins>


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

>  static int one_hundred = 100;
> +static int int_max = INT_MAX;
>  
>  /* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */
>  static int maxolduid = 65535;
> @@ -239,7 +240,10 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
>  		.data		= &sysctl_sched_nr_latency,
>  		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
>  		.mode		= 0644,
> -		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
> +		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec_minmax,
> +		.strategy	= &sysctl_intvec,
> +		.extra1		= &one,
> +		.extra2		= &int_max,

could we instead justmake sched_nr_latency non-tunable, and recalculate 
it from the sysctl handler whenever sched_latency or 
sched_min_granularity changes? That would avoid not only the division by 
zero bug but also other out-of-spec tunings.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26  9:43 aim7 -30% regression in 2.6.24-rc1 Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-26  9:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-29  0:15   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-26 11:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29  2:22   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-29  9:37     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-30  2:12       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-30  7:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-30  8:36           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-31  9:57             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-31 10:30               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-01  8:58                 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <1193922687.27652.279.camel@twins>
     [not found]                     ` <20071101150049.GB4044@elte.hu>
2007-11-01 15:29                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-01 15:36                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-01  9:34               ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-01 10:02                 ` Cyrus Massoumi
2007-11-05  1:24                   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-05  9:37                     ` Cyrus Massoumi
2007-11-07  5:30                       ` Zhang, Yanmin

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