Subject: Re: Scheduler tunables?
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:19:05 +0000
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On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 11:19 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> Mike Galbraith wrote:
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> >> It looks like the scheduler tunables have been removed from 2.6
> >> somewhere before 2.6.17. 
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> > 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.

	-Mike

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