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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen,credit1: Add variable timeslice
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:45:42 +0100
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On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 16:49 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 16:30 +0100 on 01 Sep (1314894626), George Dunlap wrote:
> > Add a xen command-line parameter, sched_credit_tslice_ms,
> > to set the timeslice of the credit1 scheduler.
> 
> Does that really need to be set at boot time?  It seem like sounething
> that should go through the credit scheduler's run-time interfaces. 

Yes, setting at run-time would be convenient.  But it involves a lot of
plumbing through to user-space tools that I don't have time to do at the
moment.  (Hopefully sometime in the next few months, maybe before 4.2.)

 -George