hw.bge.forced_collapse

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 19:52:56 UTC 2009


On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:11:14PM +0300, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:32:43AM -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:54:40AM +0300, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > > I saw commit introducing hw.bge.forced_collapse loader tunable.
> > > Just intresting, why it can not be a sysctl ?
> > 
> > I didn't think the sysctl variable would be frequently changed
> > in runtime except debugging driver so I took simple path.
> 
> I do not think it's worth to reboot server just to look how various
> values affect on bandwidth and CPU usage, expecially in production.
> 
> As I understand the change is trivial:
> 
> -          CTLFLAG_RD
> +          CTLFLAG_RW
> 
> since bge_forced_collapse is used atomically.
> 

I have no problem changing it to RW but that case I may have to
create actual sysctl node(e.g. dev.bge.0.forced_collapse) instead
of hw.bge.forced_collapse which may affect all bge(4) controllers
on system. Attached patch may be what you want. You can change the
value at any time.
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