Re: Scheduler tunables?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Sep 17 2006 - 13:08:10 EST


On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 11:19 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:19 -0400, John Richard Moser 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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