From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] scheduler tunables with contest - prio_bonus_ratio
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:48:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E0284EB.16A720ED@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1040352135.2645.97.camel@phantasy
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-20 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-19 21:50 [BENCHMARK] scheduler tunables with contest - prio_bonus_ratio Con Kolivas
2002-12-19 22:46 ` Robert Love
2002-12-19 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-19 23:41 ` Robert Love
2002-12-20 0:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-20 0:15 ` Robert Love
2002-12-20 0:22 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-20 0:29 ` Robert Love
2002-12-20 0:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-20 2:42 ` Robert Love
2002-12-20 2:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-24 22:26 ` scott thomason
2002-12-25 7:29 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-25 16:17 ` scott thomason
2002-12-26 15:01 ` scott thomason
2003-01-01 0:31 ` Impact of scheduler tunables on interactive response (was Re: [BENCHMARK] scheduler tunables with contest - prio_bonus_ratio) scott thomason
2003-01-01 16:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-01 17:15 ` scott thomason
2002-12-19 23:42 ` [BENCHMARK] scheduler tunables with contest - prio_bonus_ratio Con Kolivas
2002-12-19 23:53 ` Robert Love
2002-12-20 0:04 ` Con Kolivas
2002-12-20 0:16 ` Robert Love
2002-12-20 11:17 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-12-20 17:54 ` Robert Love
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