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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Change softlockup trigger limit using a kernel parameter
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:11:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719091142.GA28723@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070718230907.741ae56c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > +softlockup_thresh:
> > +
> > +This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance
> > +threshold. The default threshold is 10s.  If a cpu is locked up
> > +for 10s, the kernel complains.  Valid values are 1-10s.
> > +
> 
> neato.

please make sure this is applied after the softlockup watchdog patches i 
already did. (in particular the cleanup patch, which this could interact 
with)

also, i think the valid threshold should be between 1 and 60 seconds i 
think.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 22:26 [patch] Change softlockup trigger limit using a kernel parameter Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-18 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19  5:41   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-19  6:09     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19  9:11       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-19 18:31         ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-19 18:45           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 18:51             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-20  3:12               ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-20  5:27       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai

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