Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:48:11 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [BENCHMARK] scheduler tunables with contest - prio_bonus_ratio |
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Robert Love wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 19:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Prefixing all the names with "tune_" would suit, too. > > I have no problem with this. Keeping the names in all caps rings > "preprocessor define" to me, which in fact they are - but only insomuch > as they point to a real variable. So I dislike that.
Think of them as "runtime controllable constants" :)
> Personally I like them as normal variable names... don't you do the same > in the VM code as well? But tune_foo is fine..
Convention there is to use sysctl_foo, which is fine. We haven't been consistent in that, and it's a thing I regret. But not enough to bother changing it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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