Re: [RFC] QoS params patch

From: Mark Gross
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 13:19:54 EST


On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:25:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:40:26 -0700 Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +#define QOS_RESERVED 0
> > +#define QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY 1
> > +#define QOS_NETWORK_LATENCY 2
> > +#define QOS_NETWORK_THROUGHPUT 3
> > +
> > +#define QOS_NUM_CLASSES 4
> > +#define QOS_DEFAULT_VALUE -1
> > +
> > +int qos_add_requirement(int qos, char *name, s32 value);
> > +int qos_update_requirement(int qos, char *name, s32 new_value);
> > +void qos_remove_requirement(int qos, char *name);
>
> It's a bit rude stealing the entire "qos" namespace like this - there are
> many different forms of QoS, some already in-kernel.
>
> s/qos/pm_qos/g ?

I suppose it is a bit inconiderate. I could grow to like pm_qos,
performance_throttling_constraint_hint_infrastructure is a bit too
wordy.

I suppose I should use qospm as thats the way it was put up on that
lesswatts.org web page.

Would qospm be good enough?

--mgross
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