On 03/09/2008 01:01 PM, Dhaval Giani wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:32:28PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dhaval Giani <dhaval(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I notice in the 2.6.24 update pushed out to fedora 8, fair group sched
>> is not enabled. Can it please be enabled?
> how about first asking why it was disabled?
>
Yes, you are right, I am sorry, I should have asked that question first.
So why was it disabled?
There are many reports of that feature causing big slowdowns. It seemed
better to add major new features like that in a new release rather than
possibly cause problems for existing users of a stable release.