-=> Jasen Betts wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

 KP> ... # echo 64 > /proc/sys/kernel/base_timeslice  -- 2.6.9-rc1-mm1
 JB> what dees that do anyway?
it's a hint to the kernel's process scheduler, and with some usages and
hardware, throughput rises by a few to many percent for longer timeslices.
a comment in /kernel/sched.c says this scheduler version also adjusts the
timeslices of concurrent same-priority processes. the author of this patch,
Nick Piggin, is creditted in the current mainline sched.c for work on
scheduling domains, and he has been a recent writer on the linux kernel
mailing list that's available in gated form here. hmm, he also worked, with
Jens Axboe of SuSE, on the default 2.6 kernel io-scheduler, viz
/linux/drivers/block/as-iosched.c

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