linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix cpuset sched_relax_domain

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Date:	Tue, 6 May 2008 18:51:58 -0700
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>
Cc:	"Li Zefan" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix cpuset sched_relax_domain_level control file

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
> > Or maybe we can restrict the value from -1 to 5 ?
>
>  That might be a good idea.  My recollection is that this
>  is what we tell users to input ... values between -1 and
>  some small positive integer.  So returning -EINVAL on an
>  input of -2 (for example) should be the least surprising
>  behaviour for users.

That sounds fine to me too - I was just trying to get close to the
original behaviour.

Paul
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