[gmpi] Re: lost-n-found #2 latency

On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:06 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Tim Hockin <xxxthockin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Replying to myself:
>
> What I posted sounded more like a spec than reqs.  How about this:
>
>   3.13. Latency
>
>   Req 60:   GMPI plugins must report their latency when queried by the
>   host.
>
>   Req 61:   Plugins must be able to change their latency, when allowed by
>   the host.
>
>   [more...]
>
>   It must be possible for plugins to change their reported latency.
>   However, it may be too much to allow them to change it whenever they
>   want. The following conditions are suggested for the specification of
>   plugin latency reporting:
>
>   * Plugins may change their latency whenever they are queried by the
>     host.
>   * Hosts may query or not query plugins as often as they see fit.

This sounds good to me.
"Ideally" it would be great if the graph could adapt to a plugin latency
change on the fly of course, but I can see that hosts would have a hard time
handling this robustly.
Koen


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