[Bug 210007] Review Request: libtune - standard API to access the kernel tunables

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Summary: Review Request: libtune - standard API to access the kernel tunables


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210007





------- Additional Comments From notting at redhat.com  2008-02-14 12:58 EST -------
(In reply to comment #74)

> > Apps should not be twiddling with tunables in /proc or /sys - they are system
> > wide attributes. 
> 
> Agreed, but many applications need some tunables to be set higher than the
> default values. So, today, there must be administrators doing an "echo xxx >
> /proc/kernel/sys/yyy", either by hand or via a script.
> This is only what the libtune is intended to do.

It is an administrator issue - they are the only ones who can arbitrate between
the needs of different apps.
> > It's never the sort of thing which will be in Fedora base, or RHEL,
> > and therefore any app that would want to use it would need ot have code to
> > handle it not being there anyway. So, what's the point?
> > 
> 
>  Yes, if it got into only one then there'd be little point. However isn't
> it safer to have a migration path? There'd be a period where an app
> would use both libtune and its own code. Then, once libtune is in both
> Fedora and RHEL,

Re-read above please. It's *never* going to be in the Fedora base distribution
or RHEL, as the upstream kernel and development community has rejected it
as a way of doing things.


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