Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:06:01 +0100 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeout mechanism |
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On Mon 2008-02-25 11:01:08, Gregory Haskins wrote: > From: Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>
Why is this good idea?
> Signed-off-by: Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com> > ---
> > +config RTLOCK_DELAY > + int "Default delay (in loops) for adaptive rtlocks" > + range 0 1000000000 > + depends on ADAPTIVE_RTLOCK > + default "10000" > + help > + This allows you to specify the maximum attempts a task will spin > + attempting to acquire an rtlock before sleeping. The value is > + tunable at runtime via a sysctl. A setting of 0 (zero) disables > + the adaptive algorithm entirely. > +
I believe you have _way_ too many config variables. If this can be set at runtime, does it need a config option, too?
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