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Are we really chasing the right issue?

Are we really chasing the right issue?

Posted Feb 24, 2012 9:55 UTC (Fri) by tglx (subscriber, #31301)
In reply to: Are we really chasing the right issue? by rvfh
Parent article: Short sleeps suffering from slack

> But sleep's behaviour should not be changed.

The kernel does not change sleep() behaviour. It's the sysadmins choice to set slack to something large. The kernel provides the mechanism, but not the policy.


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