Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.3.1 for 2.6.16-rc5

[Al Boldi]

Peter Williams wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> > The default values for spa make it really easy to lock up the system.
> > Is there a module to autotune these values according to cpu/mem/ctxt
> > performance?
>
> Jake Moilanen had a genetic algorithm autotuner for Zaphod at one time
> which I believe he ported over to PlugSched

Would this be a load-adaptive dynamic tuner?

What I meant was a lock-preventive static tuner.  Something that would take 
hw-latencies into account at boot and set values for non-locking console 
operation.

> I could generate a patch to gather the statistic again and make them
> available via /proc if you would like to try a user space version of
> Jake's work (his was in kernel).

That would be great!

Thanks!

--
Al

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