Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262225AbUCRAW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:22:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262234AbUCRAW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:22:58 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:28824 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262225AbUCRAW4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:22:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:20:27 +0100 From: Kurt Garloff To: Con Kolivas Cc: Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, Linux kernel list Subject: Re: dynamic sched timeslices Message-ID: <20040318002027.GO20121@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mail-Followup-To: Kurt Garloff , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, Linux kernel list References: <20040315224201.GX4452@tpkurt.garloff.de> <200403170013.38140.kernel@kolivas.org> <20040316142957.GX4452@tpkurt.garloff.de> <200403170745.02538.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82U+nxpba3czjIX9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403170745.02538.kernel@kolivas.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.4-1-KG i686 X-PGP-Info: on http://www.garloff.de/kurt/mykeys.pgp X-PGP-Key: 1024D/1C98774E, 1024R/CEFC9215 Organization: SUSE/Novell User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1369 Lines: 43 --82U+nxpba3czjIX9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Con, On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:45:02AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > That's why I think we should offer the tunables. >=20 > If your workload is so dedicated to just number crunching it isn't hard t= o add=20 > a zero to maximum timeslice in kernel/sced.c.=20 Of course I can compile a custom kernel for myself and tune all sorts of things. But this is not the way most Linux users want to use Linux any more. Actually that's a long time ago. Best regards, --=20 Kurt Garloff [Koeln, DE] Physics:Plasma modeling [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SUSE Labs (Head) [SUSE Nuernberg, DE] --82U+nxpba3czjIX9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWOtFxmLh6hyYd04RAi3IAJsEqi+K4tFgAxlYmPbx22SDm/EOMgCfYVdZ RcLlDcGpm9ZJKyYhvzTgujM= =lP3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82U+nxpba3czjIX9-- - 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/