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Re: Put CPU-related tunables into a unique namespace?
On 07/12/2018 02:27 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 07/12/2018 11:07 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 07/12/2018 12:23 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>>> On 07/12/2018 09:01 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>> OK, so a couple of questions for you?
>>>>
>>>> * Should '.tune.' be removed considering these are *tunables*?
>>>
>>> The 'tune' meant 'CPU tuning' for me when I had proposed it, so it
>>> isn't quite the same as 'tunable'. Maybe call it 'perf' since
>>> they're all performance related?
>>>
>>> Or maybe glibc.cpu.* and then rename glibc.tune.cpu to
>>> glibc.cpu.name?
>>
>> Sure! I like that.
>
> Cool, I'll post a patch for this next week if nobody objects to the idea till then.
Sure, the cleanup would be nice since we agree to stabilize
tunable names within a minor release. So 2.28 would go out
with a cleaner set of tunable names.
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Cheers,
Carlos.