On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 10:10 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 3.0.0-6 Not yet released, so you can't tell whether this will be changed! > Severity: wishlist > > Hey, > > since few versions, linux-2.6 uses an “autogroup" scheduling setting, which > is supposed to improve the responsiveness, especially for desktop session. > > Upstream enables it by default, and there's a sysctl > (kernel.sched_autogroup_enabled) to disable it in case it causes issues. > > Debian ships a patch (debian/patches/debian/sched-autogroup-disabled.patch) > which changes the default to disabled. > > I'm not too sure what is the rationale for changing the default, but I think > it'd be nice to revert that and keep upstream default, unless there are good > reasons to divert from them. The upstream default is that it is disabled at compile-time, since SCHED_AUTOGROUP is not 'default y' or selected by any other option. Our default matches this but adds the option to enable it at run-time. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up.
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