login
Header Space

 
 

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset

Score:
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]
To: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <mingo@...>, <peterz@...>, <andi@...>
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 8:56 am

H.Seto wrote:

I too don't have a strong preference either way ... just a bias toward
keeping the exposed per-cpuset flags as simple and generic as practical.

Exposing internal details that don't need to be exposed has two downsides:
 1) it makes using the flags slightly more difficult, as the user has to
    figure out more details, and
 2) it exposes some internal details that we didn't need to expose, thereby
    possibly making future changes more difficult.  We can change internal
    hidden detail anytime we want, but exposed interfaces are locked in
    with a high barrier to incompatible change.

I too would welcome comments from others.

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.940.382.4214
--
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]

Messages in current thread:
[PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Hidetoshi Seto, (Tue Apr 1, 7:26 am)
[PATCH 2/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset (v2), Hidetoshi Seto, (Fri Apr 4, 5:11 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset (v2), Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Apr 10, 10:53 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset (v2), Hidetoshi Seto, (Sun Apr 13, 9:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset (v2), Paul Jackson, (Mon Apr 14, 11:38 am)
[PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset (v2), Hidetoshi Seto, (Fri Apr 4, 5:10 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Paul Jackson, (Tue Apr 1, 7:55 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Hidetoshi Seto, (Wed Apr 2, 4:39 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Paul Jackson, (Wed Apr 2, 7:14 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Hidetoshi Seto, (Wed Apr 2, 11:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Paul Jackson, (Thu Apr 3, 9:14 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Paul Jackson, (Thu Apr 3, 8:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Apr 3, 6:46 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Apr 1, 7:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Apr 1, 7:48 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Andi Kleen, (Tue Apr 1, 7:40 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Apr 1, 7:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Andi Kleen, (Tue Apr 1, 9:29 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Customize sched domain via cpuset, Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Apr 1, 9:38 am)
speck-geostationary