From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [FOR-STABLE-3.9+] sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 09:40:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200703074025.GA2390868@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffdfb849a11b9cd66e0aded2161869e36aec7fc0.1593757471.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 12:54:04PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> From: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@nokia.com>
>
> We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit:
>
> ce0dbbbb30ae ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice")
>
> ... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality
> it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies.
>
> This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the
> value set failed, such as HZ=100:
>
> root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
> root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
> 10
>
> Fix this to be milliseconds all around.
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9+
> Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@nokia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@nokia.com
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
What is the git commit id of this patch in Linus's tree?
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-03 7:24 [FOR-STABLE-3.9+] sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds Viresh Kumar
2020-07-03 7:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-07-03 7:43 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-07-05 13:30 ` Sasha Levin
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