From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758108AbZEDPg2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 11:36:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756216AbZEDPgS (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 11:36:18 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41497 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755965AbZEDPgS (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 11:36:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings From: Peter Zijlstra To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <49FF0AFF.8030303@oracle.com> References: <1241449678.7620.4931.camel@twins> <49FF0AFF.8030303@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:36:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1241451369.7620.4934.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?