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

[Peter Williams]

Al Boldi wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

> 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'm not sure what you mean here.  Can you elaborate?

> > 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!

OK, I'll put it on my "to do" list.

Peter
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