For all ya BFS (brain fuck scheduler) lovers out there

Mon Sep 14 12:20:20 CEST 2009

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:51:44PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:
>Hi,
>>Thanks to LKML discussion there's an interesting switch found that
>reportedly makes CFS behave as good as BFS for typical desktop workloads.
>>Read all the details at [1] and to try it on your devices, simply do:
>>mkdir /debug
>mount -t debugfs none /debug
>echo NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS > /debug/sched_features
>>It will magically solve all the problems but i hope it can improve
>experience at least somewhat.
>>[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125260838709566&w=3

ITYM "it will not magically solve"?
Anyway, it's work-in-progress just as BFS is, and obviously depends
on debugfs, and touches tunables BFS doesn't need, and the freerunner
is not your typical desktop, so it should be taken with a grain of salt!
But thanks :)
-- 
mjt