From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable softlockup detection at boottime
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:13:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080429141300.GA26461@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429124426.GA20775@sgi.com>
* Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:
> > ah, sorry. But ... perhaps using threshold -1 would be the most
> > intuitive setting? (for 'infinite timeout' ==> softlockup detector
> > turned off) That way it all becomes configurable as part of the
> > threshold? No strong opinion though.
>
> Having the ability to switch it off dynamically would be nice to have,
> but will need a little work yet. Any solution should also minimize
> the amount of time spent in softlockup_tick.
>
> Either '0' or '-1' seems OK to me, but if '-1' turns it off, do we
> allow a value of '0'?.
i think <= 0 should be the condition for "off". That means both -1 and 0
would be OK.
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 20:16 [PATCH] disable softlockup detection at boottime Dimitri Sivanich
2008-04-23 21:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-23 22:24 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2008-04-28 16:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 18:52 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2008-04-29 12:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 12:44 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2008-04-29 14:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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