On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:05:37AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> 2) Probably want the application to pass in the appropriate grace > >> period, not hard code it at 1 second. > > > > 2) actually sounds really useful. Should we look into it ASAP? > > I think so. Question is what kind of granularity we need for this. I > think we can go pretty coarse and keep it in msec, using a short to > pass this in like we do for the thread CPU. That gives us 0..65535 msec, > which should be plenty of range. msec granualarity sounds fine. But is it really worth using a short instead of a 32-bit value these days? Also 16385 seems very limiting for a cpu value, especially as our normal cpu ids are ints.
