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DateThu, 19 Dec 2002 18:48:11 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [BENCHMARK] scheduler tunables with contest - prio_bonus_ratio
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.
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