scheduler-ticker > 1000Hz, nitromethane for linux ;-)

Hi all,

this is a not fully serious (this is why I only post it here without sendig it directly via mail) patchset for:

* tune the scheduler at configuration point
* increase the ticker-frequency way above 1000Hz
* tune the ticker-freq. from userspace during runtime

Of course this increases your systems overhead, but it enables you to have more timer-triggered contexswitches per second and so (?)higher(?) interactivity. (Of course after tuning some scheduler-parameters, min_gran, wakeup_gran ...)

An interesting feature might be the userspace controlling of the tickerfreq, too. (Without disturbing HZ-dependend kernelcode, of course.)

I don't have very high hopes for an mainline integration ;-) but perhaps there are people, who want to play with such stuff.
The Code is more or less an excerise and perhaps some reviewing would be nice - so please contact me.
If (in the very unlikely case) there is enough interest in it, I can cleanup the code and start maintaining it...

* The patch is diffed against 3.2.7
* The whole patchset is also downloadable as an bzipped archive at:
http://www.matrixstorm.com/software/linux/nitromethane/linux-3.2.7-patches.tar.bz2

So now, please blame me "we don't need such s*it, it causes only overhead"... ;-)

regards Stephan

pub 4096R/FB9B12DB 2011-10-14 Stephan Bärwolf <[email protected]>
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Stephan Baerwolf (10):
menuconfig: implement new submenu for extended scheduler-options
sched: implement the new menuconfig controlling of sched_tunables
menuconfig: extend nitro-menu by responsiveness nitro options
sched: implement the controlling of responsiveness-nitro-options
menuconfig: extend nitro-menu by HZ-frequency Nitro
hrtimer: implement the controlling of nitro-hzboost
menuconfig: extend nitro-menu by priority-nitro
sched: implement the controlling of priority-nitro
menuconfig: extend nitro-menu by userspace-multiplier hrtimer/sysctl: implement the controlling of userspace multiplier

 arch/x86/Kconfig            |    4 +-
 include/linux/sched.h       |    8 ++
 kernel/Kconfig.hz           |    3 -
 kernel/Kconfig.sched        |  202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sched.c              |    9 ++
 kernel/sched_fair.c         |   58 +++++++++++--
 kernel/sysctl.c             |   16 ++++
 kernel/time/tick-common.c   |   33 +++++++
 kernel/time/tick-internal.h |   20 ++++
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c    |   51 +++++++++++
 10 files changed, 390 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 kernel/Kconfig.sched

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