linux-kernel - Re: Scheduler tunables?

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Date:	Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:47:13 -0400
From:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler tunables?

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Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 11:19 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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>> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:19 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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>>>> It looks like the scheduler tunables have been removed from 2.6
>>>> somewhere before 2.6.17. 
>>> Which tunables are you referring to?
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>> http://kerneltrap.org/node/525
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>> The relevant code changes in sysctl.h and sched.c seem to be undone.  Of
>> course I'm assuming my distribution didn't just add a side patch in at
>> the time when I noticed these existed so long ago.
> 
> Ah.  These knobs were never exported in a standard kernel.  I believe
> there was a patch recently (couple weeks ago?) posted to export them
> again for experimentation.  A search of the archives should turn it up.
> 

Nods.  May be good in environments where longer time slices could be a
significant performance enhancement.


> 	-Mike
> 
> 

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