linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: fix GENTLE_FAIR

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Date:	Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:08:40 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: fix GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dependency

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 15:50 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> 
> I think originally introduced as a development/debugging facility,
> sched_features is slowly transforming into a viable tool for System
> Administrators, by looking at the impact of turning on/off some of these
> features on some workloads (especially non-desktop workloads). And I
> think these benefits should be passed on to the end users perhaps in the
> form of documentation. 

This is really not meant to be used in that context. Its purely a debug
feature, with knobs coming and going as we see fit.



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