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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:00:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BF66F4.9030106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070812013519.a5d5d59b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On 08/12/2007 10:35 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:17:10 +0200 Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> wrote:

>> The line just below where it does that _does_ seem to have a problem:
>>
>>          /*
>>           * Maximum threshold is 125
>>           */
>>          threshold = min(125, threshold);
>>
>> as either the comment or the code is wrong and it seems it's the code. Added 
>> Andrew Morton to the CC for that.
> 
> Yes, that's inconsistent.  And looking at Christoph's df9ecaba it's unclear
> whether the comment is wrong or the code is wrong.  The code is wrong, I
> expect.

Extremely friendly of you to pretend I wasn't being thick at all but don't 
worry, I can take it. Anyways, since Christoph wasn't in CC on that one:

On 08/12/2007 05:29 AM, Roland Dreier wrote:

> What's the problem? That line sets threshold to the smaller of the 
> current value or 125, which is exactly what one would want to do if the
> maximum value is 125. Just do a couple of examples: eg if threshold is
> 100 going into that line, then the value is left alone; if threshold is
> 150 then it gets set to 125; and that seems exactly correct.

Rene.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-12 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-12  1:08 Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12  1:27 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12  1:52   ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12  3:17     ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12  3:29       ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-12  3:36         ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12  8:35       ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-12 20:00         ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-08-13 20:44           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-12  7:24     ` Paul Mundt
2007-08-12  8:41   ` Willy Tarreau
2007-08-12 11:46 ` Andi Kleen

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