* Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:

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> > 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
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