Re: [patch v5 10/15] sched: packing transitory tasks in wake/execpower balancing

From: Alex Shi
Date: Wed Feb 20 2013 - 03:54:31 EST


On 02/20/2013 04:43 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> >
>> > Sounds reasonable too.
>> >
>> > I have no idea of the of the decision now.
>> > And guess many guys dislike to use a knob to let user do the choice.
> Nobody likes seeing yet more knobs much, automagical is preferred.
> Trouble with automagical heuristics usage is that any heuristic will
> inevitably get it wrong sometimes, so giving the user control over usage
> is IMHO a good thing.. and once we give the user the choice, we must
> honor it, else what was the point?
>
> Anyway, fwiw, I liked what I saw test driving the patch set..
>
>> > What's your opinions, Peter?
> ..but maintainer opinions carry more weight than mine, even to me ;-)

:) Yes, maintainers usually heard enough arguments and can balance them...


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Thanks Alex
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