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diff --git a/kernel/sched_features.h b/kernel/sched_features.h
index d56e305..d5059fd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -1,11 +1,118 @@
-SCHED_FEAT(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPT, 1)
+/*
+ * Disregards a certain amount of sleep time (sched_latency_ns) and
+ * considers the task to be running during that period. This gives it
+ * a service deficit on wakeup, allowing it to run sooner.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Only give sleepers 50% of their service deficit. This allows
+ * them to run sooner, but does not allow tons of sleepers to
+ * rip the spread apart.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
+
+/*
+ * By not normalizing the sleep time, heavy tasks get an effective
+ * longer period, and lighter task an effective shorter period they
+ * are considered running.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER, 0)
+
+/*
+ * Place new tasks ahead so that they do not starve already running
+ * tasks
+ */
 SCHED_FEAT(START_DEBIT, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Should wakeups try to preempt running tasks.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPT, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Compute wakeup_gran based on task behaviour, clipped to
+ *  [0, sched_wakeup_gran_ns]
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(ADAPTIVE_GRAN, 1)
+
+/*
+ * When converting the wakeup granularity to virtual time, do it such
+ * that heavier tasks preempting a lighter task have an edge.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_GRAN, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Always wakeup-preempt SYNC wakeups, see SYNC_WAKEUPS.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_SYNC, 0)
+
+/*
+ * Wakeup preempt based on task behaviour. Tasks that do not overlap
+ * don't get preempted.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_OVERLAP, 0)
+
+/*
+ * Use the SYNC wakeup hint, pipes and the likes use this to indicate
+ * the remote end is likely to consume the data we just wrote, and
+ * therefore has cache benefit from being placed on the same cpu, see
+ * also AFFINE_WAKEUPS.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_WAKEUPS, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Based on load and program behaviour, see if it makes sense to place
+ * a newly woken task on the same cpu as the task that woke it --
+ * improve cache locality. Typically used with SYNC wakeups as
+ * generated by pipes and the like, see also SYNC_WAKEUPS.
+ */
 SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Weaken SYNC hint based on overlap
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_LESS, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Add SYNC hint based on overlap
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_MORE, 0)
+
+/*
+ * Prefer to schedule the task we woke last (assuming it failed
+ * wakeup-preemption), since its likely going to consume data we
+ * touched, increases cache locality.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NEXT_BUDDY, 0)
+
+/*
+ * Prefer to schedule the task that ran last (when we did
+ * wake-preempt) as that likely will touch the same data, increases
+ * cache locality.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(LAST_BUDDY, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Consider buddies to be cache hot, decreases the likelyness of a
+ * cache buddy being migrated away, increases cache locality.
+ */
 SCHED_FEAT(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_WAKEUPS, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Use arch dependent cpu power functions
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(ARCH_POWER, 0)
+
+SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 0)
 SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, 0)
-SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_GRAN, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, 0)
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+SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(LB_SHARES_UPDATE, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_EFF_LOAD, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Spin-wait on mutex acquisition when the mutex owner is running on
+ * another cpu -- assumes that when the owner is running, it will soon
+ * release the lock. Decreases scheduling overhead.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(OWNER_SPIN, 1)