Re: [PATCH next] softirq: enable MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME tuning with sysctl max_softirq_time_usecs

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On 2019/6/24 17:45, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Zhiqiang,
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, Zhiqiang Liu wrote:
>> 在 2019/6/24 0:38, Thomas Gleixner 写道:
>>
>> Thanks again for your detailed advice.
>> As your said, the max_softirq_time_usecs setting without explaining the
>> relationship with CONFIG_HZ will give a false sense of controlability. And
>> the time accuracy of jiffies will result in a certain difference between the
>> max_softirq_time_usecs set value and the actual value, which is in one jiffies
>> range.
>>
>> I will add these infomation in the sysctl documentation and changelog in v2 patch.
> 
> Please make the sysctl milliseconds based. That's the closest approximation
> of useful units for this. This still has the same issues as explained
> before but it's not off by 3 orders of magitude anymore.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> 
Thanks for your suggestion.
I will adopt max_softirq_time_ms to replace MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME in v2.




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