Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:45:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:45:08 -0500 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:3971 "HELO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:45:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:59:39 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Erich Focht , Michael Hohnbaum , Matthew Dobson , Christoph Hellwig , Robert Love , Andrew Theurer , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , lse-tech Subject: Re: [patch] sched-2.5.59-A2 In-Reply-To: <1372810000.1043079799@titus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I think we definitely need to tune this on a per-arch basis. There's no > way that one-size-fits-all is going to fit a situation as complex as > this (though we can definitely learn from each other's analysis). agreed - although the tunable should be constant (if possible, or boot-established but not /proc exported), and there should be as few tunables as possible. We already tune some of our scheduler behavior to the SMP cachesize. (the cache_decay_ticks SMP logic.) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/