linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings

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Message-ID: <49FF0C4E.9090807@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 04 May 2009 08:39:58 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth
 settings

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 08:34 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> +Fiddling with these settings can result in an unusable system, the knobs are
>>> +root only and assume root knows what he's on about.
>> I know that my English is limited, but I don't know what this means:
>>   "what he's on about."
> 
> Hehe, OK, how about we write it like:
> 
> Fiddling with these settings can result in an unstable system, the knobs are
> root only and assumes root knows what he is doing.
> 
> Does that work better for you?

Yes, thanks.

-- 
~Randy
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