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Message-Id: <1259932366.5621.27.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:12:46 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 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 17:12 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> On 12/04/2009 04:38 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Does this also mean these features should not impact any specific
> workload much?

Not at all.  Most loads will be heavily affected by one or more
features.

	-Mike

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