Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] sched: Reduce the default slice to avoid tasks getting an extra tick

[Vincent Guittot]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 at 10:13, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 01:29:31AM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
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> > I brought the topic up of these magic values with Peter and Vincent in LPC as
> > I think this logic is confusing. I have nothing against your patch, but if the
> > maintainers agree I am in favour of removing it completely in favour of setting
> > it to a single value that is the same across all systems.
>
> You're talking about the scaling, right?
>
> Yeah, it is of limited use. The cap at 8, combined with the fact that
> its really hard to find a machine with less than 8 CPUs on, makes the
> whole thing mostly useless.
>
> Back when we did this, we still had dual-core laptops. Now phones have
> 8 or more CPUs on.
>
> So I don't think I mind ripping it out.

Beside the question of ripping it out or not. We still have a number
of devices with less than 8 cores but they are not targeting phones,
laptops or servers ...