Robin Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, you could just extend them to understand fixed point. Keep > > printing integers as integers, print non-integers with one (or two: > > will we ever need 0.01% increments?) decimal places. > > Right now, it is possible to build our largest Altix configuration with > 64TB of memory (unfortunatetly, we can't get any customers to pay that > large of bill ;). We are currently shipping a few 4TB systems and hope > to be selling 20TB systems by the end of the year (at least engineering > hopes to). > > Given that, two decimal places are really not enough. We probably need > at least 3. > > Is there any reason to not do 3 places? Is this the right direction to > head or does anybody know of problems this would cause?
It's a rather unorthodox fix, but not illogical. I guess it depends upon how much sysctl infrastructure it adds. Probably quite a lot. Another approach would be to just say the ratio now has a range 0 .. 999,999 and then, if it happens to be less than 100, treat that as a percentage for back-compatibility reasons. Although that's a bit kludgy and perhaps a completely new /proc entry would be better. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
