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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> On Friday 29 August 2008 00:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > > For this, if this time limit does kick in, we should at the very least
> > > print something out to let the user know this happened. After all,
> > > this is more of a safety net anyway, and if we are hitting the limit,
> > > the user should be notified. Perhaps even tell the user that if this
> > > behaviour is expected, to up the sysctl <var> by more.
> >
> > yeah, agreed, this is a reasonable suggestion. Peter, do you agree?
> 
> Seems reasonable. But I still think it should be disabled by default
> (it might not get caught in testing for example).

Perhaps we should default it to 1sec, that way it would be hit more often, 
and educate the users of this now feature.

-- Steve

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