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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-09-19 23:34:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-09-19 23:34:46 +0200
commit1799e35d5baab6e06168b46cc78b968e728ea3d1 (patch)
treecccf64a62fa9106aa18253371b675925c0582bab /kernel/sysctl.c
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sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield() more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position in the rbtree. with sched_compat_yield=0: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2539 mingo 20 0 1576 252 204 R 50 0.0 0:02.03 loop_yield 2541 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 50 0.0 0:02.05 loop with sched_compat_yield=1: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2584 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 99 0.0 0:52.45 loop 2582 mingo 20 0 1576 256 204 R 0 0.0 0:00.00 loop_yield Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 6ace893c17c9..53a456ebf6d5 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -303,6 +303,14 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "sched_compat_yield",
+ .data = &sysctl_sched_compat_yield,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ },
#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,