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Subject: Re: [RFC patch 1/2] sched: dynamically adapt granularity with
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 22:36 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> But if you want us to change the scheduler to be more latency sensitive
> and trade in throughput for other benchmarks, we can do that.

Really, just say "latency trumps throughput" and we'll make it so.