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Date:   Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:53:20 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To:     Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
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On Wed 20-10-21 16:29:14, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 4:06 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
[...]
> > As I've said I am OK with either of the two. Do you or anybody have any
> > preference? Without any explicit event to wake up for neither of the two
> > is more than just an optimistic retry.
> >
> From power perspective it is better to have a delay, so i tend to say
> that delay is better.

I am a terrible random number generator. Can you give me a number
please?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs