From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:46:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:45:55 -0400 Received: from gw-yyz.somanetworks.com ([216.126.67.39]:34190 "EHLO somanetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:45:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:45:29 -0400 From: Mark Frazer To: Alan Cox Cc: Bogdan Costescu , Jeff Garzik , Pete Zaitcev , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for Message-ID: <20010601104529.D5248@somanetworks.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Bogdan Costescu , Jeff Garzik , Pete Zaitcev , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20010601103749.C5248@somanetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:37:19PM +0100 Organization: Detectable, well, not really Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox [01/06/01 10:39]: > > I'd argue for rate limiting as the application only gets back new data, > > never a cached value n times in a row. > > Which is worse. I cat the proc file a few times and your HA app is unlucky. It > now gets *NO* data for five minutes. If we cache the values it gets approximate > data > Is it not possible to have several readers waiting for the same data and return it to all of them when the timer expires?