sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:38:52 +0000 (19:38 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:47:23 +0000 (19:47 +0200)
Currently we use overlap to weaken the SYNC hint, but allow it to
set the hint as well.

 echo NO_SYNC_WAKEUP > /debug/sched_features
 echo SYNC_MORE > /debug/sched_features

preserves pipe-test behaviour without using the WF_SYNC hint.

Worth playing with on more workloads...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched_fair.c
kernel/sched_features.h

Simple merge
Simple merge