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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: testsuite: Of all the timeouts provided always select the 	largest
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080227154303.GA31042@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0802271527160.3906@perivale.mips.com>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:38:54PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  Hmm, I have given it a little bit more thought and I believe it may be 
> reasonable for boards to provide their own factors for classes of 
> operations, let's say two for a start, corresponding to tranfer and 
> execution latencies as noted above.  Then each of calling sites might use 
> one of them according to operation performed, together, possibly, with a 
> factor specific to the requested operation which the class factor would be 
> multiplied by.  I am not sure if that is not too complicated, but it would 
> better match the reality.  All the factors might default to 1 for 
> simplicity as could call sites with no class annotation (your flag might 
> become '-timeout-class').
> 
>  Any thoughts?

Yes - do you think this extra complexity is really useful?  I'm dubious.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-27 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-26 15:55 Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-02-26 16:02 ` Jim Blandy
2008-02-26 16:17   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-02-26 16:39     ` Jim Blandy
2008-02-27 15:43       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-02-27 15:45         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-02-26 16:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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