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Re: [RFC] Tunable elision patch for siddhesh/tunables
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <sid at reserved-bit dot com>
- To: "Paul E. Murphy" <murphyp at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:38:50 +0530
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Tunable elision patch for siddhesh/tunables
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On Tuesday 13 October 2015 07:32 PM, Paul E. Murphy wrote:
> No worries. Did you try that exact string? It should be the
> yet more verbose "glibc.pthread.elision_enable=1" or 0.
>
> Siddhesh, is it necessary to prefix each tunable with "glibc."?
> It is implied by the name of the envvar.
Yes, it is necessary - debian could for example put in a debian.foo.bar
tunable that is useful for their distro but is not acceptable upstream.
That is what the top namespace is for.
Siddhesh