On 27.09.2016 04:30, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: >> Is seconds granular enough? > > The only reason why one would ever want to go into fractions of > seconds would be some sort of unittesting with very low delays. > > In any normal environment the max is going to be tens if not hundreds > or thousands of seconds. > > Also note that the delay and interval (ie. not max interval) are also > currently exported in seconds, so having more granularity for > max_seconds is kind of pointless. > > I have been considering whether I could make proc_dointvec_jiffies > accept floating point input (and output) though... although that seems > a little harder and probably out of scope of this change.
Good point. Using ms should actually be easy, instead of proc_dointvec_jiffies you can use proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies. It seems good practice to add a _ms then to the sysctl, too. I am fine with both ways. Bye, Hannes
