Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: fix GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS dependency

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Dec 04 2009 - 06:08:53 EST


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.



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