[RFC] Tunable elision patch for siddhesh/tunables

Siddhesh Poyarekar sid@reserved-bit.com
Tue Oct 13 14:09:00 GMT 2015


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



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