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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:36:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241451369.7620.4934.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FF0AFF.8030303@oracle.com>

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 08:34 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > +Fiddling with these settings can result in an unusable system, the knobs are
> > +root only and assume root knows what he's on about.
> 
> I know that my English is limited, but I don't know what this means:
>   "what he's on about."

Hehe, OK, how about we write it like:

Fiddling with these settings can result in an unstable system, the knobs are
root only and assumes root knows what he is doing.

Does that work better for you?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-04 15:07 [PATCH] sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-04 15:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-05-04 15:36   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-05-04 15:39     ` Randy Dunlap

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