From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758183AbZEDPjE (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 11:39:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757578AbZEDPiv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 11:38:51 -0400 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:34050 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753466AbZEDPiv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 11:38:51 -0400 Message-ID: <49FF0C4E.9090807@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:39:58 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Randy Dunlap , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings References: <1241449678.7620.4931.camel@twins> <49FF0AFF.8030303@oracle.com> <1241451369.7620.4934.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1241451369.7620.4934.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: abhmt002.oracle.com [141.146.116.11] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010201.49FF0BEE.0066,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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? Yes, thanks. -- ~Randy