Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:13:00 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] disable softlockup detection at boottime |
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* Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:
> > ah, sorry. But ... perhaps using threshold -1 would be the most > > intuitive setting? (for 'infinite timeout' ==> softlockup detector > > turned off) That way it all becomes configurable as part of the > > threshold? No strong opinion though. > > Having the ability to switch it off dynamically would be nice to have, > but will need a little work yet. Any solution should also minimize > the amount of time spent in softlockup_tick. > > Either '0' or '-1' seems OK to me, but if '-1' turns it off, do we > allow a value of '0'?.
i think <= 0 should be the condition for "off". That means both -1 and 0 would be OK.
Ingo
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