Re: [FOR-STABLE-3.9+] sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Fri Jul 03 2020 - 03:44:01 EST


On 03-07-20, 09:40, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 12:54:04PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > From: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit:
> >
> > ce0dbbbb30ae ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice")
> >
> > ... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality
> > it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies.
> >
> > This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the
> > value set failed, such as HZ=100:
> >
> > root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
> > root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
> > 10
> >
> > Fix this to be milliseconds all around.
> >
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.9+
> > Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> What is the git commit id of this patch in Linus's tree?

I am really sorry for missing the only thing I was required to do :(

commit 975e155ed8732cb81f55c021c441ae662dd040b5 upstream.

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viresh