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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:59:55 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched: add a tuning knob to allow changing RR tmeslice
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* Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> wrote:

> This version stores the user-input value in a separate 
> location from the jiffies values used by the scheduler, to 
> prevent a race condition.
> 
> Subject: [PATCH v2] sched: add a tuning knob to allow changing 
> RR timeslice

looks useful.

> @@ -2010,7 +2010,7 @@ static void task_tick_rt(struct rq *rq, struct
> task_struct *p, int queued) if (--p->rt.time_slice)
>  		return;
>  
> -	p->rt.time_slice = RR_TIMESLICE;
> +	p->rt.time_slice = sched_rr_timeslice;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Requeue to the end of queue if we (and all of our
> ancestors) are the @@ -2041,7 +2041,7 @@ static unsigned int
> get_rr_interval_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *task)
>  	 * Time slice is 0 for SCHED_FIFO tasks

Patch wont apply due to patch corruption, alas.

Thanks,

	Ingo