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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:12:19 +0530
From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: fix GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dependency
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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?

http://osdir.com/ml/linux-kernel/2009-09/msg03406.html
In the thread above Ingo mentions about a few features and my
understanding is that some of these might favour one type of workload
than other. Is this not true anymore?


Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman
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